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Bluesky changes course Jay Graber built something impressive but stagnant. Can a new CEO get it growing again?
11.03.2026 00:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?
10.03.2026 00:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the backlash to the AI war machine A protest at OpenAI headquarters suggests the backlash to military AI is growing — even if its politics are still half-formed. PLUS: The Pentagon declares Anthropic a supply chain risk
06.03.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Where does Anthropic go from here? Shunned by the government, and newly appealing to consumers, the company is at a crossroads
04.03.2026 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out? Sam Altman’s deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. What happens when the public realizes that?
03.03.2026 02:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived AI safety researchers have long worried that a government would seek to use AI for domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. The Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic threatens to make it a reality
27.02.2026 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Following: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon PLUS: The Substack post that tanked the markets, continued
25.02.2026 01:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The shallow impact of India’s AI summit The US government still can’t think beyond “winning.” The rest of the world is still thinking too small
24.02.2026 01:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The infinite scroll goes on trial Testifying before a jury in LA, Mark Zuckerberg makes the case that platform design is about free expression. But the walls are closing in on Section 230
20.02.2026 01:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta’s face turn In the company’s latest policy reversal under Trump 2.0, the facial recognition system it blew up in 2021 may be poised for a return
17.02.2026 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why GPT-4o had to go As OpenAI sunsets its most dangerous model, the tensions it exposed remain as tricky as ever. PLUS: Elon's space catapult, and OpenAI vs. Anthropic
13.02.2026 01:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team Joshua Achiam will become the company's chief futurist
11.02.2026 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever. PLUS: AI ads at the Super Bowl and in ChatGPT
10.02.2026 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot Anxiety about AI replacing entry-level jobs is on the rise. Could a state-of-the-art chatbot do the job of a Platformer fellow? PLUS: Anthropic vs. OpenAI, and will AI kill SaaS?
06.02.2026 01:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How a new AI tool fixed my single biggest problem with Spotify Spotify’s Molly Holder on the power of prompted playlists. PLUS: Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app
04.02.2026 00:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire
03.02.2026 01:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Falling in and out of love with Moltbot Maybe someday you’ll have a genie in your laptop working for you 24/7. Today is not that day
30.01.2026 01:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy
28.01.2026 01:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When murder becomes a meme Truth and terror in Minneapolis. PLUS: TikTok conspiracy theories, and Dario Amodei's Oppenheimer moment
27.01.2026 01:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The AI productivity paradox Managers say it makes them more productive. Workers don't. What gives?
23.01.2026 01:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta’s scam problem, UK edition Plus: Writers react to Claude Code for writers; Elon Musk vs. OpenAI; and ChatGPT gets ads
21.01.2026 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Claude Code for writers Five useful things I’ve built so far. Plus: Grok caves, and Thinking Machines implodes
16.01.2026 01:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What I learned while cloning my own voice Announcing Platformer+, a new way to listen to our columns
14.01.2026 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Grok gets blocked More than a week into a deepfake scandal, a handful of foreign governments have found the strength to do what Apple, Google, and the United States will not
13.01.2026 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer I feel great about the website I’m building — and terrible for professional website builders. PLUS: Who will stop Grok? And ChatGPT will see you now
09.01.2026 01:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the debate over AI consciousness At ConCon, researchers and tech workers debate whether future systems could develop an inner life — and how you would know if they did
07.01.2026 01:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
06.01.2026 01:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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11 predictions for 2026 PLUS: What I got right (and wrong) about 2025
19.12.2025 01:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spotify is part of the trade war now The US is retaliating against the EU after it fined X — and now some of Europe's biggest companies are caught in the crossfire
17.12.2025 01:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning A fresh investigation reveals the scope of Meta's problem in China. Will a pending court case force the company to crack down — or destroy Section 230?
16.12.2025 01:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0