Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Wow. This is the first reported case of Perplexity ever paying anyone

Wrote about Perplexity's comical flouting of every other website's rules and insistence that it is being "bullied" www.platformer.news/amazon-perpl...

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

I wrote about Bluesky a year after the big post-election surge in users, and whether you can build a happier version of Twitter while keeping its same basic shape www.platformer.news/bluesky-2025...

I'm doing a big Bluesky column today! Hit me with your where-Bluesky-is-at-this-moment-in-2025 takes

Sharing some personal thoughts and feelings about the last weekend on the world's number one baseball app

(podcaster wedding vows) OK so first let's talk about how we got here

Bluesky is now testing dislikes. If you see a post you dislike you're in the beta techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/b...

Character.AI is the first major company to acknowledge that companions aren't safe for young people. Will others follow? www.platformer.news/character-ai...

Bending Spoons buys dying tech brands and jacks up their prices to maximize pain for their remaining customers. It is the final stage of enshittification before death

Watched the new Stranger Things trailer and all the kids are in their 40s now

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Wrote about OpenAI's restructuring and what it means for how AI is governed www.platformer.news/openai-restr...

I talked to OpenAI about its surprising new research on the prevalence of mental health concerns in ChatGPT usage and whether this is a problem we can model-tweak our way out of www.platformer.news/openai-menta...

Tommy Craggs is a treasure www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release products that have obvious harms and say "oops!" two days later and add some minor safeguard

The bar for earning a free Waymo ride just keeps getting higher

Despite being one of the only places adult creators can sell their work, OnlyFans' take rate is much lower than YouTube, Substack, or the App Store.

Based on a post in their Discord, looks like OpenAI is announcing their browser at 10AM.

OpenAI's flailing over content policy for Sora is just the latest example of the company rushing out a product at the expense of its own reputation. As AI tools get more powerful, that's reason for concern www.platformer.news/openai-sora-...

Max Read is the latest Substacker to find that the company's newsletter growth engine appears to have stalled maxread.substack.com/p/four-years...

And starting in 2027, if Instagram notices your teen synthesizing a novel bioweapon using Meta AI, a pop-up will encourage them to take a break

"It's OK to make disrespectful videos of historical figures unless enough living family members complain about them" is a weird and untenable policy

I wrote about the AI slop backlash and how platforms are starting to respond to it www.platformer.news/thursday-new...

“San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce.” Good on you, Ron Conway www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

California's move to regulate AI companions really could not have come soon enough www.platformer.news/california-a...

A very funny thing is that if someone shares a tweet in a group chat now, X's preview now erases your name and just shows you the number of likes it got

Marc Benioff's stock is going down because his AI agents don't work so it's time to rev up the hype machine

"Similar to" but importantly not identical. Meta is drafting off the higher trust that people have in movie ratings to suggest that Instagram is as safe for a 13-year-old as seeing Superman. But movies aren't social media and Meta isn't even publishing its actual revised content policies

AI leaderboards are declining in influence. So why did Meta-backed Scale AI just launch a new one? With @ellamarkianos.bsky.social www.platformer.news/ai-leaderboa...

In some ways this is the government now

OK so it's both intergalactic and entirely confined to Australia. Got it

Great news: now everyone who ruined Twitter is incredibly rich

Wrote about fresh signs of an AI bubble (and why the industry says the worries are mostly overblown) www.platformer.news/ai-bubble-20...

Just got pitched on going to this event and I would rather attend the Riyadh Comedy Festival

Elon Musk once said he would pursue former Twitter execs to the ends of the earth. Instead, he just settled their $128 million lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I want to make sure we leave a lot of time for questions" — someone who is about to leave exactly 10 minutes for questions

"At the end of the day, it's an idea" — Jony Ive, after a five-minute windup at OpenAI Dev Day, on how he comes up with ideas.

I wrote about OpenAI's ambitious platform play and the Cambridge Analytica flashbacks it inspired. Plus, Sam Altman takes my question about enshittification risk www.platformer.news/openai-dev-d...

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

Wait … there are real LinkedIn accounts??

Here's what everyone is saying about Sora. Of note: several OpenAI employees have posted about their concerns with the product www.platformer.news/sora-2-react...

In the future, iPhone reviews should default to comparing the phone to the model from two years ago ... almost no one I know is upgrading every year any more

Asking the Comet browser to summarize Emperor Cleon's huge naturals

Tried out the new slop app www.platformer.news/sora-2-hands...

Talked to OpenAI about its new parental controls and the effort to make ChatGPT safer for kids — by pushing more responsibility onto parents www.platformer.news/chatgpt-pare...

It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”

ChatGPT Pulse is a step toward becoming a proactive assistant that works for you in the background. It's also one more feed to scroll. Sound familiar? www.platformer.news/chatgpt-puls...