👤 Casey Newton

17 articles tracked

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Written from 17 articles, last analysed 2026-08-28. The text itself is generated again each time this page is opened.

About this journalist

Articles
17
2026-08-18 – 2026-08-28
Claims per article
146
2,487 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
17,918
characters
Writes for Platformer.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Technology
88%
Entertainment
6%
Politics
6%
Most-tagged topics
AnthropicRaycastOpenAIReplitFacebookGlazeGoogleGranola

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More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-08-27 · Platformer · Technology
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
9 outlets covered this event
2026-08-19 · Platformer · Technology
OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure
8 outlets covered this event
2026-08-18 · Platformer · Technology
A big week for AI denialism
8 outlets covered this event
2026-08-28 · Platformer · Technology
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-21 · Platformer · Technology
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-19 · Platformer · Technology
Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-08-18 · Platformer
Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
🔮 Last week on the Platformer podcast, Replit's Amjad Masad predicted that apps are about to enter a long twilight. assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
Superintelligence is a dragon
🔮 The CEOs I speak with on the subject mostly cannot even imagine that a true superintelligence will result in significant job loss, much less greater harm. assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
🔮 Replit started as a website where beginners could run code in a browser without having to install anything. assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss
🔮 Last week on the Platformer podcast, Raycast’s Thomas Paul Mann predicted that within a few years, as much as half the apps on your Mac could be ones you made yourself. assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
A big week for AI denialism
🔮 The document states that a model will represent a critical risk when “A tool-augmented model can identify and develop functional zero-day exploits of all severity levels in many hardened real-world critical systems without human intervention.” assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
The case for making your own apps
🔮 When I talked to Eugenia Kuyda for the Platformer podcast, she predicted that the long tail of subscription apps on your phone would soon disappear. assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI
🔮 Last season on the Platformer podcast, we explored what AI means for jobs — including the risk that huge numbers of them might soon go away. assertive
2026-08-18 · Platformer
The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
🔮 Our Platformer podcast miniseries took the question to seven experts with a variety of perspectives, and the debate ended mostly in optimism — with most guests casting doubt on the idea of mass long-term unemployment, even as they acknowledged that AI will likely cause most jobs to change dramatically. assertive
2026-08-19 · Platformer
An LLM wiki changed how I work
🔮 I call the idea an infohazard because, simply by becoming aware of it, I had ensured that I would devote the next several weeks to building it, without having any idea whether it would benefit me at all. assertive
2026-08-19 · Platformer
OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure
🔮 Lately, the only important question about a new large language model has been whether the Trump administration would allow anyone to use it. assertive
2026-08-19 · Platformer
Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
🔮 It includes a free tier with a one-time bundle of credits that will let you build an app or two; after that you'll need a Pro subscription — $20 a month at launch — which refreshes with 200 credits monthly and lets you buy more if you run out. assertive
2026-08-21 · Platformer
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
🔮 It’s an effort to capture the expertise of a single employee and distribute it more broadly throughout the enterprise — a preview, I think, of how more businesses will think about the relationship between AI and employees in the years to come. assertive
2026-08-27 · Platformer
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
🔮 The states filed their agreement with Meta on Wednesday morning in that court, where Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is expected to approve it. assertive
2026-08-28 · Platformer
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
🔮 Our first guest, Box CEO Aaron Levie, argued that mass disruption would be highly unlikely. assertive
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