Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 19hI spent some time with OpenAI's new agent, Dots, and it's ... pretty good??? www.platformer.news/openai-dots-... 5302
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026However skeptical I am about Muse as a consumer product, I have to admit that the VR Glasses are a real achievement. Some thoughts on Meta Connect www.platformer.news/meta-connect...platformer.newsCan Muse make us forget the metaverse?Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though) 4261
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm skeptical about Muse www.platformer.news/meta-muse-co... 10844
Reposted by Casey NewtonChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got 31698241544
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Getting my associate’s degree in regulatory arbitrage from Horowitz Andreessen Academy 3844
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Probably the worst job in a video game is being the henchman in the stealth tutorial whose job is it to stand motionless looking over a railing, waiting for someone to sneak up behind you so they can knock you out with one button. I don't envy that guy 9683
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026On the eve of our final episode, wrote a farewell to Hard Fork and a few thoughts about what we're doing with Machine Gods www.platformer.news/hard-fork-ma...platformer.newsWhat was Hard Fork?Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods 8744
Reposted by Casey Newtoncait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go 124145132810
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is Machine Gods! A new podcast from Kevin and me, in partnership with the legends at NPR. New episodes in October! Links to follow the show here — the trailer is already up machinegods.fmmachinegods.fmMachine Gods — the official podcast of the singularity 2712712
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming: www.platformer.news/ai-safety-vi... 5569
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Gang I'm not going to be able to get to this story. Does anybody else want it 3713
Reposted by Casey NewtonJ. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026even now, she's still teaching us 95144972732
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I wrote about why the AI labs make for lousy messengers about AI safety — and about why we should take them seriously anyway www.platformer.news/openai-astra... 2431
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Excited to put all my money into Jack Dorsey Uninsured National Trust Bank 612818
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026UBS becomes the first bank to ask prospective employees: can you type into a box? 49812
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack www.reuters.com/world/europe...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this springA swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter. 58721
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wrote about how you can lose three massive antitrust cases in a row and more than double your value anyway www.platformer.news/google-ad-te... 35611
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's cool how you can lose two different antitrust lawsuits and still not have to make any structural changes to your business at all www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...nytimes.comIn a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court RulesIn a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures. 411421
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Highly recommend sending this piece to your partner today followed by "thoughts?" www.theverge.com/tech/986737/...theverge.comDyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for youDyson’s first electric toothbrush has a camera, Wi-Fi, and a mouthwash sprayer. 11786
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wrote about the crazy revelations in the METR report on Hugging Face (including one that corrected something I'd been getting wrong), and the growing industry push for a slowdown www.platformer.news/openai-huggi... 76217
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is the message local communities have been waiting to hear to get them really excited about data centers. A masterstroke by the president 4847
Reposted by Casey NewtonSheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026NEW- Judge rules government decision to ban Anthropic was illegal, and violated constitutionally protected activities. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t...nytimes.comJudge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was IllegalThe government unlawfully retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote. 214424
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Talked to former Meta and Salesforce exec Clara Shih about how AI agents "radicalized" her into quitting her Big Tech job to try to help people who may lose their jobs to AI: www.platformer.news/clara-shih-n... 55313
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wrote about Meta's ludicrous effort to position itself as a leader in child safety after today's $17 billion settlement with state AGs www.platformer.news/meta-child-s... 28626
Reposted by Casey NewtonAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com 69135098679
Reposted by Casey NewtonSam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors 2474188767
Reposted by Casey NewtonColin @colin-fraser.net · 21/08/2026honestly the best way to tell if an image online is fake is to introspect about whether looking at reinforces a sense of superiority over some group towards which you already feel contempt 547160
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Not Spirit Airlines causing delays from beyond the grave 2907
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I wrote about building an LLM wiki to stay on top of my beat. A month in, it's changing how I work www.platformer.news/karpathy-llm... 7675
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Uh oh, sounds like another agent escaped its testing environment! 911620
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Town was the first company I saw in a while that made me say ohhhh ... everyone is going to copy this. I interviewed 'mayor' Jean-Denis Greze about building a self-organizing company www.platformer.news/town-intervi... 3313
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's facile, self-serving AI manifesto and what he misunderstands about the technology www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-a... 68316
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Btw regarding the claim in here that Gemini 3.5 Pro has been "silently canceled," Google tells me that is not the case. 2411
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Talked to Replit CEO Amjad Masad about how he dealt with the feeling that "everything I worked for is kind of moot" following the rapid improvement of coding tools www.platformer.news/replit-amjad... 714213
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Grokipedia just stopped updating after eight months ... and it took another four for anyone to notice www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...lawfaremedia.orgGrokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content. 612726
Reposted by Casey NewtonJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comTikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by SuicideA confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement. 6357214
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Why are Snap, LinkedIn, and Substack turning away from slop while Meta and TikTok embrace it? It comes down to what the platforms promise their user bases www.platformer.news/slop-restric... 21039
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026And they all email every pitch three times "in case this got buried." Girl who do you think buried it 413515
Reposted by Casey NewtonDeepa Seetharaman @deepa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New from me + @raphae.li: In the process of investigating the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI found evidence that some its other AI agents broke out of their sandboxes, per sources. The company is now widening its probe to include those newly found incidents. www.reuters.com/business/ope...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probeOpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global a... 54215
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026First Substack, then LinkedIn, now Snap: companies are taking steps to restrict the spread of slop newsroom.snap.com/rewarding-au...newsroom.snap.comRewarding Authentic Creativity on SpotlightSpotlight recommendations will increasingly prioritize authentic, human-made creativity. 2553
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I talked to the CEO of one of the only good AI *product* companies — Chris Pedregal of Granola — about what an AI notetaker learns about a company, and what bosses keep asking him to do with it www.platformer.news/granola-chri... 2461
Reposted by Casey NewtonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth. 360124433128
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The sight of Ted Lasso now makes me physically nauseous. Has anyone studied this 11571
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Feels like the past week has been a big moment for Substackers realizing that they don't control the platform and it can make decisions that go against their interests at any time, for any reason www.404media.co/substackers-...404media.coSubstackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’“I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.” 6616
Reposted by Casey NewtonStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 27/07/2026PIZZA HISTORIAN WATCHING “MYSTIC PIZZA”: I don’t even know where to begin. I would be ashamed to serve these pizzas. 221437183
Reposted by Casey NewtonJohn Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence... 2295
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Wrote about why AI safety incidents are leading ~some people~ to stick their fingers in their ears and insist nothing is happening www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f... 1112815