A look at OpenAI's custom GPT builder, which Sam Altman says the company wants to keep simple for now, and the risks in allowing anyone to create GPT agents
You might be surprised to learn that's not what worries me most. — What keeps me up at night is the firehose of all kinds of automated content we're going to face, including large, fully automated i...
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user
Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously. Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange , @drewharwell@mast...
Sources detail how Twitter's health team, once tasked with fostering civil conversations, was cut from 15 full-time staff to two amid the Musk acquisition chaos
Just when you think things couldn't get any crazier at Twitter … Casey Newton / Platformer : Sources detail how Twitter's health team, tasked with fostering civil conversations, went from 15 full-time...
Three things Web3 should fix in 2022: make crypto transactions safe and reliable, make blockchains efficient, develop tech for mitigating harassment and abuse
A viral video highlights some very real shortcomings in the next-generation internet — Last weekend, it felt like everyone I knew was sending me the same link. Tweets: @caseynewton , @laurengoode , ...
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and break things” with “regu...
Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban
Casey's reporting for The Verge brought some of the dirty laundry … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming? — This is Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel abo...
The rise of TikTok, Clubhouse, and Substack shows that social networks have gotten competitive again, amid antitrust pressure on Facebook from the US government
Casey Newton / Platformer : Tweets: @caseynewton , @ingridlunden , @s8mb , @sarthakgh , and @hamishmckenzie Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : TikTok, Clubhouse, Substack, Dispo: the consumer inte...
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech ...
The unedited nature and serendipity of conversations makes Clubhouse a compelling platform for productive discussions on otherwise fraught topics
Elon Musk disrupts podcasting. PLUS: Robinhood's big mistake — I. Andreessen Horowitz and the backdoor pilot — Hey, did you hear Elon Musk went on Clubhouse? Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @jaycodon , @...
Q&A with Casey Newton on incentives for media and reporters in the age of social media, why some people in tech hate tech press, evolution of Facebook, and more
The Verge's Silicon Valley editor discusses tech media, recent issues with Facebook, and more … Part of the tech world is fed up with tech journalists. Tweets: @dlberes , @caseynewton , @kantrowitz , ...