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Why Substack is at a crossroads
Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
 • Casey Newton
OpenAI’s news blues
A New York Times lawsuit won’t be the last challenge to LLMs’ free-riding. PLUS: A note on Substack and Nazis
 • Casey Newton
14 predictions about 2024
AI! Elections! Threads! Media! And more
 • Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer
An Epic win jolts Google
The company's app store monopoly has been ruled illegal, and the ramifications will extend well beyond Fortnite
 • Casey Newton
X restores Alex Jones
Five years after Big Tech deplatformed him, Jones is back — but X ain’t what it used to be
 • Casey Newton
Meta’s Oversight Board takes on the Israel-Hamas War
The board promises to move quickly for a change — but is it focused on the right problem?
 • Casey Newton
Google unveils Gemini
CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4
 • Casey Newton
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