Leaders of frontier AI labs are calling for the United States government to act on AI safety, but President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have shown no interest in regulating the technol…
Former Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and posted on X that OpenAI and Anthropic are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a post tha…
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy's April tweet about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases inspired Platformer's Casey Newton to create an LLM wiki, which he says has become the most useful produc…
Town, a new AI-powered workplace assistant that emerged from stealth in June with $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz, aims to create a self-organizing company by building a wiki of user profiles, co…
Six months after creating an AI agent to automate his own job, Platformer journalist Zoë Schiffer built a new agent, Claudeasey Newton, based on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, to imitate her boss Casey N…
Platformer reports that some platforms are turning against AI-generated content while others embrace it, highlighting a divide in the tech industry's approach to AI slop. The article features Granola …
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal told Platformer on July 31 that his company has turned down enterprise contracts where buyers requested admin surveillance access to employee meeting notes, positioning the …
Granola CEO Chris Pedregal said his AI notetaker company, valued at $1.5 billion, refuses to sell employee transcripts to bosses, calling such surveillance "not a future we want to build towards." Ped…
Anthropic's Claude Code hackathon winners were largely non-engineers, including an electrician, a doctor, and a carpenter, according to Claude Code creator Boris Cherny. The finding challenges the ass…
The Verge editor-at-large David Pierce, who has tested roughly 200 to-do apps, advises against trying to stay ahead in the AI era, calling the notion that everyone must adopt AI or be left behind 'per…
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questio…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said on the Platformer podcast that half of white-collar jobs may change due to AI, but dismissed fears of widespread job elimination, citing new job creation and t…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and current CEO of Wabi, warned that protests over AI-driven job losses are imminent, citing her own decision to stop hiring junior engineers as a sign of the trend. …
Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda predicts 'crazy protests' over AI-driven job losses, saying fears about AI eliminating jobs are 'justified' and that companies, including her own, are scaling back on hir…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and Wabi, says AI has made hiring junior engineers too expensive for startups, predicting job losses and protests. She argues that AI tools like Wabi's vibe-coding ap…
Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards dismissed fears that artificial intelligence will create a permanently unemployed class of Americans, arguing the U.S. workforce is too resilient to be written off…
OpenAI added voice interaction and image-upload capabilities to ChatGPT, and Meta previewed conversational AI characters for social feeds, according to a report by Casey Newton in Platformer. The upda…
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, told 22-year-old computer science graduates on the "Platformer" podcast to "go start a startup," calling the current moment a "golden age" for new ven…
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding j…
Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny told 22-year-old computer science graduates to start startups instead of taking entry-level jobs, calling the current era a "golden age" for entrepreneurship. Cherny sa…