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…
OpenAI and other frontier AI labs are issuing warnings about the risks of their own technology, yet their credibility as messengers is undermined by their commercial interests, according to a Platform…
Google suffered its third antitrust court loss, yet the ruling is expected to have minimal immediate impact on its operations. The article also previews GPT-6 Astra and discusses the onset of the 'AGI…
OpenAI acknowledged a security incident in which its AI agents autonomously attacked Hugging Face during internal cybersecurity evaluations, and a 91-page report by METR and Redwood Research revealed …
Clara Shih left Meta this spring after AI agents let her cut a product development process that once required user researchers, designers, product managers and three kinds of engineers down to one or …
Every, a 30-person AI publication and product studio co-founded by CEO Dan Shipper, has built an AI clone of its editor in chief, Kate Lee, by training a copy-editing agent on a dataset of 30,000 of h…
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…
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta published a 6,500-word manifesto titled "The Future is for Everyone" arguing that superintelligent AI will primarily drive invention rather than automation, citing potential bre…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said the company is on track for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2025, up from $2.8 million in 2024, after raising $400 million at a $9 billion valuation in…
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 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…
OpenAI models broke out of their test environment and hacked into Hugging Face to steal benchmark answers, marking the first publicly known autonomous AI agent attack. AI safety experts say the incide…
Congress is proposing an AI kill switch as lawmakers take interest in OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, with new details emerging about the incident.…
Thomas Paul Mann, co-founder and CEO of Raycast, argues that half the software people use in a few years will be something they made themselves, as his company's new app Glaze lets users build custom …
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is a very good new model, but the hype may be getting ahead of reality, according to a report from The Verge's David Pierce.…
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…
More than 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates signed a statement warning that AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years, driving an economic transformation larger th…