Archive - Platformer

Why Platformer is leaving Substack

We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out

Jan 12, 2024 • Casey Newton

Meta seeks to hide harms from teens

But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings

Jan 10, 2024 • Casey Newton

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform

Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says

Jan 8, 2024 • Casey Newton

Why Substack is at a crossroads

Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis

Jan 5, 2024 • Casey Newton

OpenAI’s news blues

A New York Times lawsuit won’t be the last challenge to LLMs’ free-riding. PLUS: A note on Substack and Nazis

Jan 3, 2024 • Casey Newton

December 2023

14 predictions about 2024

AI! Elections! Threads! Media! And more

Dec 15, 2023 • Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer

An Epic win jolts Google

The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well beyond Fortnite

Dec 13, 2023 • Casey Newton

X restores Alex Jones

Five years after Big Tech deplatformed him, Jones is back — but X ain’t what it used to be

Dec 12, 2023 • Casey Newton

Meta’s Oversight Board takes on the Israel-Hamas War

The board promises to move quickly for a change — but is it focused on the right problem?

Dec 8, 2023 • Casey Newton

Google unveils Gemini

CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4

Dec 6, 2023 • Casey Newton

How Facebook helps predators find each other

A new report on CSAM shows how platform dynamics are bringing bad actors together, years after a similar scandal unfolded at YouTube

Dec 5, 2023 • Casey Newton

Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn

Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents

Dec 2, 2023 • Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton

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