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Articles from www.platformer.news

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

Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real time content, fediverse, and more (www.platformer.news)
2024-7-4

Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding (www.platformer.news)
2024-6-14

The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relied on web search to have their business discovered, or their blog post read, or their journalism funded (www.platformer.news)
2024-5-15 AI

Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument (www.platformer.news)
2024-4-24

A look at the book The Anxious Generation, as some say author Jonathan Haidt falls short in showing that social media is causing a teen mental health crisis (www.platformer.news)
2024-4-14

A look at the rocky launch of Shine, the photo-sharing app developed by Marissa Mayer's startup Sunshine whose cofounder Enrique Muñoz Torres resigned this week (www.platformer.news)
2024-4-5 Startup

Sources detail Grindr's push to monetize, including plans for an AI chatbot that can engage users in sexual conversations and may be trained on opt-in user data (www.platformer.news)
2024-3-29 AI chatbot

An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter's tumultuous transition to X (www.platformer.news)
2024-2-16 Interview Twitter

Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky's AT protocol, and more (www.platformer.news)
2024-2-13

Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn't believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material (www.platformer.news)
2024-1-12

Substack says it'll remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content (www.platformer.news)
2024-1-9 Far-right

Substack wants to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, akin to Cloudflare, but a platform can't claim to be simple software when it recommends content (www.platformer.news)
2024-1-5

Q&A with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Gemini, digital agents, changing search, the pace of AI development, coding, and more (www.platformer.news)
2023-12-7 Google AI

Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations (www.platformer.news)
2023-12-2 Amazon AI chatbot

Sources: OpenAI board mulled adding Bret Taylor after three members resigned earlier in 2023, but lacked consensus, and it never got any letter warning about Q* (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-28

Internal conversations reveal how Etsy struggled to develop moderation policies and manage employees' feelings around the Israel-Hamas war (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-14 Israel

Sources: employees at X are increasingly being asked to spend time working on xAI initiatives, as xAI is using GPUs that once belonged to Twitter (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-8 Twitter

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 (www.platformer.news)
2023-11-7

Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving (www.platformer.news)
2023-10-24 AI

A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans (www.platformer.news)
2023-10-21

As X struggles to moderate misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, Meta has an opportunity to make Threads a real-time news app many users are clamoring for (www.platformer.news)
2023-10-10 Israel

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