One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus

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The phony comforts of AI skepticism

It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous

Australia's ban on social media for teens under 16 is, among other things, an enormous gift to YouTube

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Australia bans young teens from social media

It's a blow for free expression — and an enormous gift to YouTube

Under huge antitrust pressure, Google keeps meddling with the web anyway. I wrote about its awful new 'page annotations'

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Google keeps meddling with the web

With antitrust prosecutions in full swing, the company keeps giving regulators fresh reasons for concern

Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team

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Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge

After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team

The DOJ's plan to force Google to share search queries and results with rivals might be one of the best things that could happen to the web. Suddenly, we might have viable search engines that are more interested in preserving the web than replacing it:

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Google wants to keep Chrome

The search giant is pushing back on the government’s plan to break it up — but competition is coming anyway

Tomorrow the DOJ will likely call for Google to spin out Chrome. I'm not sure that would make search much more competitive — but forcing the company to share search queries and results with its competitors in real time would

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The government has a breakup plan for Google

Chrome away from home

The right-wing effort to promote claims of voter fraud is well underway

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America holds its breath

The polls are closing — and the fight over the election could just be beginning

We don't know who's going to win tomorrow. But we do know that Elon Musk will promote false claims of voter fraud to tens of millions of people — and that X will be a central clearinghouse for conspiracy theories in the days ahead

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X’s plan to interfere with the election

Elon Musk’s effort to deny Kamala Harris an election victory is already underway. Can it work?

With the addition to search in ChatGPT, OpenAI has begun to abstract away the search engine — the economic foundation of the entire web — into a modular component of the thing that will ultimately replace it.

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OpenAI adds search

It leapfrogged Google at launch. Now ChatGPT is reaching to the past to build its future

I wrote about Jeff Bezos' outdated "view from nowhere" approach to journalism and why it doesn't work for the press in 2024 — if it ever did at all

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Jeff Bezos’ view from nowhere

The Washington Post owner says the media must stay neutral to maintain its credibility — but misunderstands how trust is built today