👤 Casey Newton

27 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
27
2026-08-18 – 2026-10-15
Claims per article
112
3,031 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
14,309
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
85%
Politics
11%
Economy/Business
4%
Most-tagged topics
AnthropicOpenAIFacebookMetaRaycastthe United StatesHouseReplit

Leaning

-0.28 average ± 0.18 · -0.35 median · 8 scored articles
Indistinguishable from their outlet, which averages -0.17. On this many articles the difference between the two is inside the margin. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-09 · Platformer · Technology
The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
21 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-11 · Platformer · Technology
The AI safety vibe shift
19 outlets covered this event
2026-09-04 · Platformer · Technology
Google gets away with it
19 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-03 · Platformer · Technology
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
19 outlets covered this event · leans left
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

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
Notes on the third era of slop
🔮 Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. 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
Congress proposes an AI kill switch
🔮 Maybe we should listen? 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
2026-09-03 · Platformer
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
🔮 (“If we had posted this as a story on LessWrong,” wrote the rationalist blogger Zvi Mowshowitz, “it would have been dismissed as too on the nose, the humans too blind and stupid, the AIs too idealized and doing strange decision-theoretic and absurd-maximizing things we didn’t train them to do.”) assertive
2026-09-04 · Platformer
Google gets away with it
🔮 Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. assertive
2026-09-09 · Platformer
The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
🔮 Maybe we should listen? assertive
2026-09-11 · Platformer
The AI safety vibe shift
🔮 “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Hubinger wrote. assertive
2026-09-18 · Platformer
What was Hard Fork?
🔮 When Kevin and I pitched Hard Fork in 2021, Silicon Valley was in the throes of crypto mania, and we assumed that the podcast would cover the effort to rebuild our existing internet on the blockchain. assertive
2026-09-23 · Platformer
Muse is having a moment
🔮 Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them assertive
2026-09-25 · Platformer
Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
🔮 At the time, Silicon Valley had been consumed by an interest in bots, which its boosters hoped would shift more and more internet activity to messaging apps. assertive
2026-09-30 · Platformer
OpenAI connects the Dots
🔮 Writing on his blog, Gates predicted that the age of apps was coming to an end. assertive
2026-10-07 · Platformer
Does intelligence need a hard cap?
🔮 The other is recent blog posts from OpenAI and Anthropic outlining their progress toward recursive self-improvement: AI systems that can research and train their successors, leading to ever-faster releases and increased risk that the systems will escape their control. assertive
2026-10-15 · Platformer
The states come for OpenAI
🔮 While these cases against OpenAI may be the most significant to date, they are far from the first: there are now dozens of private suits against the company, and governments are taking notice as well. assertive
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