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Exclusive: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (258+ words) Joshua Achiam will become the company's chief futurist This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See'my full ethics disclosure here. OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its seven employees to other…...
Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (1775+ words) A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever. PLUS: AI ads at the Super Bowl and in ChatGPT Today let's talk about an important…...
The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (1867+ words) Anxiety about AI replacing entry-level jobs is on the rise. Could a state-of-the-art chatbot do the job of a Platformer fellow? PLUS: Anthropic vs. OpenAI, and will AI kill SaaS? Editor's note: Last week our fellow, Ella Markianos, pitched me…...
How a new AI tool fixed my single biggest problem with Spotify
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (703+ words) Spotify's Molly Holder on the power of prompted playlists. PLUS: Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app Today I propose taking a respite from our various branching crises to talk about how Spotify built one of its best features in…...
Five ways of thinking about Moltbook
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1788+ words) What a social network for AI agents tells us about the future. PLUS: Elon consolidates the X empire This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See'my full ethics disclosure here. On Thursday I wrote about how…...
Falling in and out of love with Moltbot
1+ week, 5+ day ago (636+ words) Maybe someday you'll have a genie in your laptop working for you 24/7. Today is not that day This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See'my full ethics disclosure here. These are excellent questions. The more I…...
The AI productivity paradox
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1760+ words) Managers say it makes them more productive. Workers don't. What gives? This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See'my full ethics disclosure here. One of the most important open questions in tech today had some surprisingly…...
Claude Code for writers
3+ week, 5+ day ago (779+ words) Five useful things I've built so far. Plus: Grok caves, and Thinking Machines implodes This is a column about Claude Code. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See'my full ethics disclosure here. In the week since, amid a general craze for…...
What I learned while cloning my own voice
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (1610+ words) Announcing Platformer+, a new way to listen to our columns One of the first stunts Kevin Roose ever pulled on Hard Fork was to clone my voice. It was October 2022, ChatGPT had yet to be released, and one of the…...
The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (508+ words) I feel great about the website I'm building " and terrible for professional website builders. PLUS: Who will stop Grok? And ChatGPT will see you now This is a column about AI focused on Claude Code. My boyfriend works at Anthropic,…...