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Articles from www.platformer.news

Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (www.platformer.news)
4 days ago

An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad on why “vibe coding” is never about coding, the SaaS apocalypse, building a “self-driving company”, and more (www.platformer.news)
24 days ago SaaS Interview

An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (www.platformer.news)
2026-7-31 Interview AI

Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-6-24 Amazon AI

Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent, widely discussed “Messy Middle” essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it (www.platformer.news)
2026-6-14 AI

Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on why much of the AI jobs panic is overblown, why the US should start planning for AI job loss outcomes, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-6-3 AI

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding (www.platformer.news)
2026-5-29

Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title “software engineer” is disappearing, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-5-27 AI

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (www.platformer.news)
2026-5-20 Google AI Layoffs

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (www.platformer.news)
2026-4-3

The jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube recognized some platform design features as defective, distinct from what Section 230 was created to protect (www.platformer.news)
2026-4-1 YouTube

Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team and transferred its staffers; Joshua Achiam, who led the team, will take on a new title of “chief futurist” (www.platformer.news)
2026-2-12

A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health (www.platformer.news)
2026-1-28

A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (www.platformer.news)
2025-12-5

A look at how tech executives use “delay, deny, and deflect” when pressed on user safety and what it means for journalism, as shame loses power over public life (www.platformer.news)
2025-11-25

Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform play to date, drawing parallels with Facebook's 2007 efforts to become a platform via social graph (www.platformer.news)
2025-10-7 Facebook

At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies (www.platformer.news)
2025-7-27

xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding “companions”; one includes an NSFW “Bad Rudy” mode and the other becomes NSFW (www.platformer.news)
2025-7-17 IOS

Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers (www.platformer.news)
2025-5-21 Google AI Google I/O

Even with DeepSeek's breakthroughs, US tech companies still benefit from their large investments to train more advanced models and meet the resulting demand (www.platformer.news)
2025-1-28

Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinfo (www.platformer.news)
2025-1-15

Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it” (www.platformer.news)
2025-1-10 Facebook Instagram

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor to genocide” (www.platformer.news)
2025-1-8

A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights (www.platformer.news)
2024-12-14 AI

The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit (www.platformer.news)
2024-12-7 AI

A look at Bluesky's moderation efforts amid a growth spurt; Bluesky plans to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100 (www.platformer.news)
2024-11-26

A look at the possible outcomes of the Google Search antitrust trial, including the very likely scenario that Google's default search engine deals won't survive (www.platformer.news)
2024-10-15 Google

At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg was the whole show, giving it a “Zuck or nothing” feel, and he has never seemed more intent on claiming the mantle of innovator (www.platformer.news)
2024-9-26 Zuckerberg

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