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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
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OpenAI connects the Dots
With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Following: OpenAI taps the brakes
On the eve of the company's developer conference, it cancels a new model over safety fears
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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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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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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Muse is having a moment
Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
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What was Hard Fork?
Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
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Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
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The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
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The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
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Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
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How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
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Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
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The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
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An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
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Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
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Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
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Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
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How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
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Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
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This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
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A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
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Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
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The case for making your own apps
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
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China has a new top model
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
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The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI
The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
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The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
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OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure
GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus — and its org chart — in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040."
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
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Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
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Why social media bans are gaining steam
How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
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The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
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This founder isn’t hiring junior engineers anymore
And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
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Five things I learned from a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
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How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
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The Oversight Board knocks Meta over unwarranted account bans
After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
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An economist's case against the AI jobs-pocalypse
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
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In a surprise, Meta increases funding to the Oversight Board
After months of uncertainty, the company's oversight body has a new lifeline
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
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Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer
Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
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Is the web being summarized to death?
At Google I/O, new features bring AI agents into the inbox and YouTube in ways that further strain the relationship between publishers and platforms
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
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Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs
Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
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Following: Elon loses the OpenAI trial
Musk vows to appeal; the judge vows to throw that case out, too
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 15/05/2026
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Are the Twitter clones in trouble?
A new report says X is resurgent — but it may be missing the bigger picture
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
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The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job
In the first episode of the Platformer podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie makes the case that you'll keep your job — but soon, you might not recognize it
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 08/05/2026
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Did xAI just concede the AI race?
Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 06/05/2026
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The Trump administration's AI doomer moment
A year ago, officials all but sneered at the idea of AI safety. A new frontier model has them reconsidering
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 01/05/2026
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We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is
Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
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How we're shaking up Platformer for the AI era
On newsletters in the age of AI automation. PLUS: Musk and OpenAI in court, and China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
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The week that Meta employees became training data
Invasive monitoring and a fresh round of layoffs have workers I spoke to on edge. Is this the future of knowledge work?
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
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Following: Trump says Anthropic is “shaping up”
PLUS: Everyone has feelings about Tim Cook
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Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
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Why UBI is making a comeback
Tech companies hope a check in the mail will calm the AI backlash — but there are reasons for skepticism
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