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Articles from www.platformer.news

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

Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-30

After countless examples of Elon Musk walking back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-8 Elon Musk Zuckerberg

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 (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-6

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-25 Twitter Elon Musk

Threads' early growth decisively proved the demand for a new text-based conversation app that could fully supplant Twitter's role in shaping public conversation (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-18 Twitter

Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram handle, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, more (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-6 Instagram

Reddit's API changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of its data, a long-planned IPO, and profitable third-party clients generating no revenue for Reddit (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-13 IPO Reddit

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