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1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Casey Newton |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:00 am Right now, I spend a lot of time writing about AI companies. AI companies are small compared to Google or Meta — in terms of the number of users, revenue and employees. They’re small by the standards of the behemoths, but they’re also massively consequential.” Technology is a huge part of the contemporary American story and economy. According to statistical data analyst Statista, in 2023 alone, the U.S. tech sector contributed nearly $2 trillion to...
How two men's clash for power got X blocked for 20 million

Sep 4, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

Starlink, the satellite broadband company led by Elon Musk, said on Tuesday that it would comply with a court order and block access to X in Brazil. It marked yet another surprising twist in a wild saga that has been simmering all year but boiled over this weekend when a Brazilian judge single-handedly moved to ban X in the country.
Telegram CEO’s shocking arrest was inevitable

Aug 27, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

By now you’ve surely heard that Telegram founder Pavel Durov is in French custody. On Saturday, the Russia-born billionaire was arrested after landing in a private plane at Le Bourget airport outside Paris. Durov is now being questioned as part of a wide-ranging investigation into criminal activity on the platform, and under French law can be held until at least Wednesday. If he is charged with a crime, though, he could be detained much longer.
Three cool apps that actually make you more productive

Aug 21, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

About once a year, I like to take a step back from the news cycle and write about a different kind of platform: the productivity tools that attempt to harness artificial intelligence and other innovations to make us better at our jobs. A year ago this week, I wrote about why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter. In short, it took me too long to learn, software can’t automate your thinking.
Kill AI Bill: Controversial “kill switch” rule could become AI law

Aug 16, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

California's controversial bill to regulate the artificial intelligence industry, SB-1047, passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday. If it passes the full Senate by the end of the month, it will head to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature. Today let’s talk about what it could mean for Meta, Google, Anthropic, and the other leading AI companies that call California home. If an AI causes harm, should we blame the AI — or the person who used the AI?
Meta’s radical plan for AI is Mark Zuckerberg’s love letter to nerd culture

Jul 24, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

Today, Meta released the largest ever open-source large language model to power generative artificial intelligence applications. Llama 3.1 represents an ambitious effort to shape the development of the AI industry in ways that favor Meta. It is also likely to spark new conversations around whether open source models are likely to generate more harm than their closed counterparts.
One year, 175 million users: Threads’ extraordinary rise

Jul 3, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world. The text-based social network, which launched as a kind of extension to Instagram, offered little that was not already available elsewhere. But the exodus from Elon Musk’s X gave Meta an opening it had long craved — to seize the opportunity that Twitter once had to host the world’s most compelling real-time public conversations. The app made an immediate splash, rocketing to 100 million users faster than any app in history.
AI “plagiarism engines” like Perplexity cannot be the future of the web

Jun 21, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

I. For a while now, I’ve been gloomy about the state of the web. Plagiarism engines like Perplexity and Arc Search have attracted millions of users by ripping off other people’s work, depriving publishers of the traffic and advertising revenue that once sustained them. The results have been successful enough that Google is following them.
Will Apple Intelligence make apps obsolete?

Jun 11, 2024 | sherwood.news | Casey Newton

CUPERTINO — By the time Apple got around to talking about artificial intelligence on Monday, it had already delivered a full keynote’s worth of announcements about improvements to come across its proliferating array of operating systems. Here was a novel math app that solved your handwritten equations in real time; there was a feature that would let you operate your iPhone from your Mac.
The Future is Flowing as Fast as a River

May 29, 2024 | markgould.substack.com | Mark Gould |Casey Newton

Hello and welcome to Art Matters. I’m Mark Gould, a journalist and artist writing about the intersection of art and technology. I cast a wide net into topics involving art and culture, I like to examine trends in the art world and feature the work of amazing artists. You can find me on Twitter, Instagram, and on Substack. We’re about to see some pretty exciting AI-animated Peter Gabriel videos thanks to a collaboration with the music icon and the generative AI image creator Stable Diffusion.