Email salesman at Platformer and podcast co-host at Hard Fork. casey@platformer.news [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv7eugx4qse2I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming: https://www.platformer.news/ai-safety-vibe-shift-coxon-anthropic/11 Sep 2026 01:07 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv7eugx4qse2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv2bkapomke2I wrote about why the AI labs make for lousy messengers about AI safety — and about why we should take them seriously anyway https://www.platformer.news/openai-astra-warning-alignment-monitoring-pachocki/09 Sep 2026 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2bkapomke2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtzl4pw5hai2Wrote about Meta's ludicrous effort to position itself as a leader in child safety after today's $17 billion settlement with state AGs https://www.platformer.news/meta-child-safety-settlement-instagram-facebook-youtube-tiktok/27 Aug 2026 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzl4pw5hai2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mtfi5ds2fmx2I wrote about building an LLM wiki to stay on top of my beat. A month in, it's changing how I work https://www.platformer.news/karpathy-llm-wiki-journalism-productivity/19 Aug 2026 00:31 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfi5ds2fmx2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msyuvrsidf62Town 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 https://www.platformer.news/town-interview-jean-denis-greze-assistants/14 Aug 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyuvrsidf62https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3msriggiwdth2I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's facile, self-serving AI manifesto and what he misunderstands about the technology https://www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-ai-manifesto-dragons/11 Aug 2026 01:43 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3msriggiwdth2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mshdwdddzql2Talked 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 https://www.platformer.news/replit-amjad-massad-interview-coding-design-jobs/07 Aug 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshdwdddzql2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3ms7r2dnwmwf2Why 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 https://www.platformer.news/slop-restrictions-linkedin-substack-snap/04 Aug 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7r2dnwmwf2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mrvnw3coc5y2I 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 https://www.platformer.news/granola-chris-pedregal-interview/31 Jul 2026 00:05 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrvnw3coc5y2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mroac345lrt2Wrote about AI denialism on Bluesky https://www.platformer.news/a-big-week-for-ai-denialism/28 Jul 2026 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mroac345lrt2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mre2vdtxwec2In the wake of OpenAI's autonomous attack against Hugging Face, I wrote about the promise and limitations of Congress' proposed AI kill switch https://www.platformer.news/openai-agent-sandbox-escape-killswitch-bill/24 Jul 2026 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre2vdtxwec2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mr73kzbrykx2Talked to Raycast/Glaze founder Thomas Paul Mann about why soon half the apps on your computer might be ones you made yourself — and what that means for jobs https://www.platformer.news/glaze-raycast-ceo-thomas-paul-mann-interview-apps/22 Jul 2026 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr73kzbrykx2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mqsjj6mgm6w2Let's talk about China's next top model: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 https://www.platformer.news/kimi-k3-launch-moonshot-ai-china/?ref=platformer-newsletter17 Jul 2026 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsjj6mgm6w2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mqauwunwmgx2Wrote about OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure https://www.platformer.news/openai-gpt-5-6-simo-meta-muse-spark-1-1/10 Jul 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqauwunwmgx2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mq3t7s76eev2I wrote about using Raycast's new Glaze app to make a superhero-themed to-do app, and other adventures in next-generation vibe coding https://www.platformer.news/glaze-app-raycast-vibe-coding-review/08 Jul 2026 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3t7s76eev2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mppdhc7o7lw2I wrote about the rapid spread of social media bans and why I think the researcher Candice Odgers' recent TED talk on the subject missed the mark. (Thank you for coming to MY TED talk.) https://www.platformer.news/social-media-bans-candice-odgers-haidt/03 Jul 2026 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mppdhc7o7lw2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mpmqvybsjps2From data center problems to inflation, AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can keep up with. And so the backlash is, too: https://www.platformer.news/ai-backlash-data-centers-jobs-inflation/02 Jul 2026 00:16 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmqvybsjps2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3molbtbpbyld2After almost four wonderful years at the Times, later this summer @kevinroose.com and I are leaving Hard Fork to start a new podcast. We'll share more soon, but in the meantime Kevin has a lovely reflection here […] https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/11677213073594770218 Jun 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3molbtbpbyld2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mniu2c7dies2If your Meta account is wrongfully suspended, you're usually screwed unless you have a friend on the inside. The Oversight Board has now noticed that this sucks https://www.platformer.news/meta-account-bans-oversight-board/05 Jun 2026 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mniu2c7dies2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmwblhqjqle2New in Platformer: months ago, Meta discussed ending funding to its Oversight Board. But today, after months of negotiations, the board said Meta has increased its funding by $13 million, which will keep it going at least through 2028 https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-funding-2028/28 May 2026 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwblhqjqle2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mms7u6mxfdy2I talked to @boris_cherny about the end of software engineering as we know it — and why AI may be responsible for more job creation than destruction https://www.platformer.news/boris-cherny-interview-ai-jobs/27 May 2026 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mms7u6mxfdy2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmfnamgnptl2I wrote about Google's new “Ask YouTube” and other ways the web is being summarized to death https://www.platformer.news/google-agents-daily-brief-newsletters-ask-youtube/22 May 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmfnamgnptl2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mmak4ml2rf22Almost a decade ago, James Manyika bet that tasks would be easy to automate — but jobs wouldn't. Now at Google, he says he's willing to bet against Microsoft, Anthropic, and any other company whose execs say a bloodbath is coming for white-collar work […] [Original post on mastodon.social]19 May 2026 23:27 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmak4ml2rf22https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mm5miqslxjt2Great. Now bring the number down to zero https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/11659723670493546118 May 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5miqslxjt2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mm36zqxccha2“The number of births fell first and fastest in the areas that received high-speed mobile connectivity earliest. The authors argue that smartphones have transformed how young people spend time with one another, sharply reducing in-person socialising and leading to the collapse in their fertility […] https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/11659178963922498917 May 2026 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm36zqxccha2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mlu5kok45hb2Is Threads growing or shrinking? Apptopia says it's the former — while Meta says that's "objectively false." I wrote about whether the Twitter clones are in trouble https://www.platformer.news/threads-bluesky-x-usage-utopia-twitter-clones/15 May 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlu5kok45hb2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mkjdwf4weoo2We're changing up Platformer's schedule to shift away from aggregation and toward original reporting. Some thoughts on how a newsletter glut and AI pressures got us here: https://www.platformer.news/platformer-schedule-changes-ai-automation/28 Apr 2026 00:39 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjdwf4weoo2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mk7cq6jel2y2I talked with Meta employees about the company's move to track their computer use and turn them into training data. Is this the future of knowledge work? https://www.platformer.news/meta-mci-monitoring-layoffs-knowledge-work/24 Apr 2026 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7cq6jel2y2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mjxsxsgcazz2I wrote about tech companies' move to promote universal basic income to calm the AI backlash and why it's probably not going to work https://www.platformer.news/ubi-ai-public-wealth-fund-musk-openai-bores/21 Apr 2026 01:21 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxsxsgcazz2https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mjno7gpceg32Some fascinating new research on the scientific case for being nice to your chatbot https://www.platformer.news/chatbot-emotion-research-anthropic-alignment-interpretability/17 Apr 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:pg66xbbvxvggggxbvy52rohd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjno7gpceg32