Casey Newton
The New York Times
San Francisco, CA, United States
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BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot or Not?
Live from the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a conversation with the assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter. → Read More
Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly
Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs, eve as the company accelerates its AI efforts with Bing. → Read More
How a single engineer brought down Twitter
Today’s Twitter crash was because Elon Musk has laid off so many people, only one engineer was working on a critical project involving Twitter’s API. → Read More
Who’s actually getting rich off of AI?
Snapchat, Notion, and Microsoft are building the interfaces. But they all point back to OpenAI. → Read More
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm. Twitter engineers built a system designed to ensure that Musk benefits from previously unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user base. → Read More
Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram, announced Artifact, a news app that uses machine learning and algorithmic recommendations to serve a feed of stories to readers. → Read More
Why Google is facing its most serious antitrust challenge to date
The US Department of Justice and eight states are suing Google over its ad business — and they might win the antitrust lawsuit over claims that ad prices are being inflated. → Read More
How ‘radioactive data’ could help reveal malicious AIs
Artificial intelligence is about to create some serious propaganda problems, a new paper argues. One solution: use radioactive data so we can catch them. → Read More
Why TikTok’s future has never been so cloudy
US government pressure on TikTok is increasing, and now ByteDance has been caught spying on US users. It could be the excuse Biden needs to push for a ban. → Read More
13 predictions for tech platforms in 2023
The media will begin its divorce from Twitter. The use of ChatGPT in education will spark a national conversation about AI. And the Web3 vision fades into the rear view. → Read More
The deep inequalities of Facebook’s secretive cross-check moderation program
It’s possible that the inequality runs much deeper than it appears. → Read More
Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Elon Musk
As Elon Musk remakes Twitter, other tech leaders are looking on in admiration as he cuts jobs with abandon and pushes back on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion principles. → Read More
Life Under Musk: Two Twitter Employees Speak Out
A radical shake-up is underway at the social media company. → Read More
Why Meta’s CTO is bullish on VR
Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth discusses the Quest Pro, timing the market, and whether this is Meta’s toughest moment. → Read More
How Twitter employees are reacting to today’s Elon Musk news
Elon Musks says he wants a new deal — but is it a trap? Here’s what Twitter’s employees are saying after Musk proposed completing the acquisition and ending the trial. → Read More
What Figma plans to do inside Adobe
Figma CEO Dylan Field discusses antitrust, AI, and the future of design after signing a $20 billion deal to be acquired by Adobe. → Read More
What I learned in my second year on Substack
"I truly wish every reporter could have the experience of getting a raise on the same day they produced something of value to their readers." → Read More
Facebook is experimenting with letting users help write speech rules
It’s hard to put trust in a policy when you have no idea who made it or why. → Read More
Is TikTok’s time running out?
TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas testified at a hearing with the US Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs where she was questioned about its relationship with China and ByteDance. → Read More
How Cloudflare got Kiwi Farms wrong
Cloudflare doesn’t want to be in charge of moderation. But when it comes to troubling sites like Kiwi Farms, the company is more responsible than it’d like to be. → Read More