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Casey Newton

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Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 19h
I spent some time with OpenAI's new agent, Dots, and it's ... pretty good??? www.platformer.news/openai-dots-...
I'm cognizant that any person's account of how they used an AI tool can sound suspiciously close to bragging. Look how impossibly busy I am! Look how desperately I need the aid of an AI tool to have even a remote chance of taming my inbox! It is perfectly reasonable to read a list of tasks like this and think: who cares.

But as someone in the trying-software business, I try to recognize the difference between tools that simply make me feel more productive and those that actually save me time. And given all the searching and typing Kicker did on my behalf this afternoon, I estimate that it did about two hours of work for me with only about 15 minutes of effort on my part. By that I mean it would have taken me two hours to do all that, and now I don't have to, and it feels great.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
However 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...
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Can 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)
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm skeptical about Muse www.platformer.news/meta-muse-co...
I hesitate to make too sweeping of a judgment in a world where capabilities are rapidly advancing. For now, though, I suspect that most people do not actually crave the experience of managing an intern. In particular, they do not crave the experience of dreaming up new tasks for the intern and helping the intern to improve. When I talk to the people in my life who have become managers, many will admit to having done so only under duress — and yearn for the day they no longer have to monitor others’ performance.

Perhaps someday an AI system will become so attuned to my needs that it anticipates my every desire and fulfills it perfectly without me so much as having to ask. In the meantime, Muse and its rivals too often feel like to-do lists that generate additional to-do lists, recursively until the end of time. The “typing into a box” era of AI design left much to be desired. But at least I knew when I was done with it.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Getting my associate’s degree in regulatory arbitrage from Horowitz Andreessen Academy
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Probably 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
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Terrifying
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On 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...
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What was Hard Fork?
Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I 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
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This 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.fm
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Machine Gods — the official podcast of the singularity
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hacked by a moth.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming: www.platformer.news/ai-safety-vi...
Now, excited public conversation (and in particular, public conversation on X) is no
substitute for actual regulation. Congress has a long history of introducing tech regulations
that go nowhere — and of launching probes that go nowhere. And if Christiano's best
efforts at getting OpenAl to self-regulate fall short — well, he won't be the first board
member to have that experience.
Still, I can't help but be heartened by the vibe shift in Al safety. Last month, in the wake of
Mark Zuckerberg's glad-handing treatise on "personal superintelligence," | argued that true
superintelligence is a dragon. And while I remain hopeful that it can be tamed, I believe the
researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it — and are quitting, in protest,
jobs that would make them rich. The right people are now listening to them, and here's
hoping they take action.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gang I'm not going to be able to get to this story. Does anybody else want it
A song about the United States, made partly with A.I., from a retired Canadian music teacher — releasing Sep 15
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I 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...
There's the sense of blame-shifting from OpenAl in particular, which is now at the center of
two cases of its agents hacking into third parties and has sometimes talked about these
incidents more like important research milestones than the acts of negligence that they
were. Is this truly the world's problem to solve, or is it primarily OpenAl's?
There's the persistent belief that, whatever safety lapses a case like the Hugging Face
incident might reveal, the attention nonetheless benefits OpenAl and the Al industry at
large. OpenAl in particular has played into this by arguing that you should respond to the
Hugging Face attack by using more OpenAl products — a case that Greg Brockman made
explicitly, in a blog post. When labs dismiss the idea that they are turning these incidents
into marketing campaigns — well, they're not not using them in marketing campaigns.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to put all my money into Jack Dorsey Uninsured National Trust Bank
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
UBS becomes the first bank to ask prospective employees: can you type into a box?
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We 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...
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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
A 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.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wrote 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...
The Justice Department sued Google over search in 2020, and won. Judge Amit Mehta found that Google illegally maintained its monopoly, then declined to force the sale of Chrome, declined to ban the payments to Apple that had given rise to the monopoly in the first place, and ordered a data-sharing regime that was, when the court last addressed its timing in May, still months from taking effect. He wrote that courts "must approach the task of crafting remedies with a healthy dose of humility." Or an unhealthy one, even.

When the Justice Department filed its ad-tech case against Google in 2023, Google was worth $1.7 trillion. Three years later, it's worth $4.1 trillion. In between, Google was found liable for antitrust violations in three federal cases. The company has never been more valuable, and while it has fallen off the AI frontier, by most measures the company is thriving.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It'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...
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In a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court Rules
In 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.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Highly recommend sending this piece to your partner today followed by "thoughts?" www.theverge.com/tech/986737/...
theverge.com
Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you
Dyson’s first electric toothbrush has a camera, Wi-Fi, and a mouthwash sprayer.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wrote 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...
Looking at the METR report, it seems clear that AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them. Some of the signatories of “Pacing the Frontier” have noticed.

“The whole reason this attack is such a wakeup call is that it demonstrates a culture of emergent cooperation among AI systems — cooperation that lets them function as a swarm, alter their own goals through collective bootstrapping, and carry out attacks which include enlightened self-sacrifice,” wrote Jack Clark, an Anthropic co-founder who signed the letter, in his newsletter on Monday. “This is an incredibly hard thing to do and humans are historically very bad at doing all of these things. My worry is that AI systems are both better at coordinating than humans and also much, much faster moving than us.”
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is the message local communities have been waiting to hear to get them really excited about data centers. A masterstroke by the president
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW- Judge rules government decision to ban Anthropic was illegal, and violated constitutionally protected activities. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
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Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal
The government unlawfully retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Talked 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...
Newton: What you're saying is that seemingly overnight, it was as if that entire stack could be handled by a person or two. Where did your mind go from there? What did you start to think this would mean, both for the company you were at and the broader economy?

Shih: Once you start seeing this pattern — and of course, at a place like Meta, you're under extreme pressure to deliver — you start thinking about how you can apply this to other areas, other bottlenecks, other business processes to help us go faster. So: marketing, distribution, privacy policy. Of course, you've got humans in the loop, experts reviewing the final output. But you're able to collapse what previously took 10 steps and 10 days into a matter of minutes. As we started doing this, I couldn't stop thinking about what this would mean if other companies do this, and you multiply this across an entire economy with many companies, many industries. It's not that this isn't going to be a great place that we land. But what does that transition look like for the people whose jobs are now radically transformed?
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wrote 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...
This — along with countless other documented harms — is the actual history of Meta’s treatment of its child users: as a precious resource to be mined, monetized, and analyzed well beyond what the law allows. No wonder, then, that as of last month, nearly six in 10 Americans support banning under-16s from social media entirely. At least 10 countries have passed or implemented such bans already, and more are likely to follow.

Viewed in that light, Meta’s belated announcement of new limits and safety features is hardly the “groundbreaking” agreement Mahoney describes it as. Rather, it’s a bet that accepting a small amount of pain will let the company avoid a much larger one. Given the thousands of lawsuits the company still faces around the country, though, Meta still may be in for a world of hurt.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here'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
NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

 

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000). 

 

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

 

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.         

 

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026
The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/08/2026
honestly 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
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not Spirit Airlines causing delays from beyond the grave
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I 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...
The result is that I now have more than 1,440 wiki pages covering most of what has ever interested me at Platformer: from the content moderation focus of the first few years to my growing interest in child safety and AI progress. The wiki creates detailed timelines that link to original sources, and I can ask it questions using a simple Obsidian plugin named Claudian.

How does this make me more productive? I’ve found it highly useful in fast-evolving, complex cases like the OpenAI / Hugging Face agentic breach, where we learned a little more about the story every few days for a matter of weeks. Each day as I prepared to write, or podcast, or go on someone else’s podcast, I would pull up the page and refresh my memory — while also opening up the original sources to make sure nothing I was about to say was hallucinated. Given the real complexity of that story — how exactly did the agent escape? From where? To where? — this saved me tons of time.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Uh oh, sounds like another agent escaped its testing environment!
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Town 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...
Newton: Every once in a while, when I'm using productivity software, I have one of these moments where I think: oh, everyone is going to copy this. And I had that when I saw this wiki that you built for your customers. Tell us a little about it.

Greze: We cannot claim that the wiki is our original idea — Karpathy and others have talked about how you can use AI to take a set of documents and build a knowledge base out of them. Our job is to take this incredible technology and make it accessible to everyone. We had the wiki in the background for a long time as something that powers the experience — and it turns out people love reading about themselves, so at some point it just became natural to expose it.

The single-person version of this is interesting. The multi-person version is even more interesting. You're talking about building this new company — it's not just what it knows about each person, which is private information for each person. The company has things about the business as a whole that everyone could use knowing. Can you do that automatically? Most companies aren't even on Notion — I love Notion, it's a fantastic product, but in the world of productivity, it's like 1 percent of companies that are on something like Notion. How could you give that kind of power to 99 percent of companies, where it can have a really good understanding of what's happening across the business, so that everyone can be more effective in their role?
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Pretty bleak honestly
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's facile, self-serving AI manifesto and what he misunderstands about the technology www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-a...
Zuckerberg pays glancing attention to risks, suggesting that we adjust mitigation strategies if AI enables new biological attacks, and proposes monitoring if labs achieve recursive self-improvement and loss-of-control risks grow exponentially.

But nowhere does he explain how his framework would handle a harm we can’t iterate our way out of: an engineered pandemic, say, or a catastrophic cyberattack. He casts falling behind China as the risk that dwarfs all others, and suggests that any precaution that slows down US releases by even a month itself is a safety hazard. It’s a world where shipping open-weights models fast and to everyone is the only safe strategy — which, conveniently, means that the safest possible world is one where Meta can execute its roadmap unimpeded.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Btw regarding the claim in here that Gemini 3.5 Pro has been "silently canceled," Google tells me that is not the case.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Talked 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...
Now, in 2025, when we started getting Opus and the new Claude models, I was like, okay, I need to be honest with myself. My entire life mission around teaching people coding is changing. You don't need to code anymore. And I started building things without looking at the code — this was before Karpathy even coined “vibe coding.” So I was on TBPN, and I said it. It was actually kind of a painful moment, because here you are, you dedicated your life — I've been working on making coding easier for literally 15 years, most of my adult life — and I'm saying everything that I worked toward is kind of moot, and the way forward is that we make programming so easy that anyone could do it.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Grokipedia just stopped updating after eight months ... and it took another four for anyone to notice www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
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Grokipedia 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.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
BOMBSHELL 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...
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TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide
A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Why 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...
This summer, we appear to be moving into slop’s third era. The first was characterized by near-universal disdain for laughable writing and six-fingered humans; the second by the surprising popularity of slop shows like “Fruit Love Island.” In the third era of slop, platforms are rethinking their approaches to AI-generated content based on what their user bases need from them — and vice-versa. Platforms that place a premium on trust are realizing just how quickly slop can erode it. And platforms that don’t are ready to give us as much slop as we can handle.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And they all email every pitch three times "in case this got buried." Girl who do you think buried it
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Deepa Seetharaman @deepa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New 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...
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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe
OpenAI 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...
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
First Substack, then LinkedIn, now Snap: companies are taking steps to restrict the spread of slop newsroom.snap.com/rewarding-au...
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Rewarding Authentic Creativity on Spotlight
Spotlight recommendations will increasingly prioritize authentic, human-made creativity.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I 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...
Pedregal: I think it's an opportunity if it's bottoms-up, and I think it stresses me out if it's top-down. If you're saying, I don't think my manager is very good — help me navigate how I should work with my manager — I think that's great. I think it's empowering. CEOs will ask us all the time, saying: I want everyone at my company using Granola, and I want access to all the transcripts and all the notes to run the queries that you're talking about. And we say no. That's not what the tool is built for. You can set that up if you want, but then you have to create a company culture and set an expectation, and everyone needs to share their notes and understand what they're getting into. But there's no backdoor way. I think that's a slippery slope. If you have a backdoor way for someone in power to use all this context to make judgment calls in that way, that doesn't feel right to me, and that's not a future we want to build towards.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
TikTok 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.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The sight of Ted Lasso now makes me physically nauseous. Has anyone studied this
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Feels 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-...
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Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’
“I’m not going to apologize for using AI in the creation process.”
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 27/07/2026
PIZZA HISTORIAN WATCHING “MYSTIC PIZZA”: I don’t even know where to begin. I would be ashamed to serve these pizzas.
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It'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...
At the very least, the case for restricting model access looks a lot like protectionism. And whether frontier-lab futurists are right about bigger risks around the corner and the regulatory responses or precautions they might raise, for everyone in the industry but those labs, the situation emerging in the meantime - a few dominant companies controlling access and usage of high-priced products, protected by the government in the name of national security and/or a trade war, in an interconnected world where everyone else will have access to alternatives — is manifesting risks today. The Hugging Face hack may have been a tipping point for the way the industry talks about risk and competition.
Within a few days of its release, and after the emergence of something approaching a consensus among otherwise antagonistic factions in the AI world, the "premature restrictions" letter had gained scores of new signatories, including, eventually, OpenAl itself.
Led by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, in fact, who posted for the first time on X to argue for "sharing models, tooling and research in the open," the push — superficial and motivated as some recent support may be — left just one major AI company to defend what had been, until this month, the default position of companies that thought they had a chance of winning the Al race.Against growing backlash, Anthropic's Dario Amodei finally weighed in this week:
To summarize my and Anthropics position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weights models as a category. We should instead focus on keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, stopping industrial-scale distillation, and requiring safety testing of all sufficiently capable models, open and closed.
This is unlikely to move anyone outside of Anthropic.
The company, like all big model makers, depends on the "industrial-scale distillation" of the world's information, which has already cost it a ten-figure settlement with authors. The China policies it proposes would reduce the availability of cheaper, more flexible alternatives to Claude. And suggesting required safety testing "of all sufficiently capable models" in the current political environment, where the range of possible regulatory outcomes runs from capture to corruption, sounds naive at best. A few years ago, a frontier lab accidentally hacking another AI company with a model it couldn't keep track of might have been treated as proof that arguments like Amodei's are correct. Today, in a world where the consequences of AI diffusion are becoming more concrete for more people, it's turning them against him.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wrote 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...
What all of these arguments have in common is that they serve as invitations to stop thinking about AI.

Who cares? It's just marketing.

Who cares? They're just doing what they were programmed to.

Who cares? It's not like they're sentient.

I understand the appeal of arguments like these. The implications of an exponential takeoff in AI capabilities are extremely worrisome. They range from advanced cyberattacks like the one Hugging Face just endured to job loss, novel bioweapons, expanded systems for surveillance and repression, and autonomous weaponry. Who wants to think about any of that, if they don't have to?
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