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Platformer

14 stories

PlatformerVoicesCan Muse make us forget the metaverse? This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . The first time I attended a Meta developer conference devoted primarily to bots was a decade ago.

September 25

PlatformerVoicesMuse is having a moment Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?

September 23

PlatformerVoicesWhat was Hard Fork? This column mentions AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . On Wednesday we announced Machine Gods .

September 18

PlatformerVoicesFollowing: The government doesn't want to regulate AI The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested

September 15

PlatformerVoicesThe AI safety vibe shift This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . On Monday, after a weekend’s worth of concerned blog posts from OpenAI, I wrote about why we ought to…

September 11

PlatformerVoicesThe AI warnings are coming from inside the lab Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them

September 9

PlatformerVoicesGoogle gets away with it A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'

September 4

PlatformerVoicesThe Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . By now I’ve written enough about the OpenAI agents’ autonomous attack on Hugging Face that saying more…

September 1

PlatformerVoicesHow AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job This podcast touches on AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . Three months ago, we began our podcast miniseries by asking how likely artificial intelligence is to…

August 28

PlatformerVoicesThe website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief My fiancé works at Anthropic, whose models Every reviews and builds on, and which comes up below. Earlier in our miniseries on productivity in the AI era, Replit's Amjad Masad described a…

August 21

PlatformerVoicesAn LLM wiki changed how I work This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . At the beginning of April, the prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy tweeted out an idea that was, for…

August 19

PlatformerVoicesTown's CEO on the self-organizing company This podcast touches on AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . Last week on the Platformer podcast , Replit's Amjad Masad predicted that apps are about to enter a long…

August 14

PlatformerVoicesSuperintelligence is a dragon This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . On Sunday night, HBO aired the third-season finale of House of the Dragon , the stuffy and unrelentingly…

August 11

PlatformerVoicesReplit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself Disclosure: my fiancé works at Anthropic, whose models Replit uses and which Masad discusses below. Last week on the Platformer podcast , Granola's Chris Pedregal told me we are only 5 percent into…

August 7