Casey Newton

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AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions

OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?

Casey Newton11d

Does intelligence need a hard cap?

Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X

Casey Newton17d

OpenAI connects the Dots

With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents

Casey Newton19d

Following: OpenAI taps the brakes

On the eve of the company's developer conference, it cancels a new model over safety fears

Casey Newton22d

Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?

Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)

Casey Newton25d

Muse is having a moment

Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?

Casey Newton29d

What was Hard Fork?

Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods

Casey Newton1mo

Following: 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

Casey Newton1mo

The AI safety vibe shift

Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about

Casey Newton1mo

The 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

Casey Newton1mo

Google gets away with it

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

Casey Newton1mo

The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

Casey Newton1mo

How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job

Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it

Casey Newton1mo

Meta settles with the states over child safety failures

Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?

Casey Newton1mo

The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief

Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI

Casey Newton2mo

An LLM wiki changed how I work

And everything else I learned about productivity this year

Casey Newton2mo

Town's CEO on the self-organizing company

Jean-Denis Greze on AI assistants, building a better corporate workspace, and avoiding "egg on face"

Casey Newton2mo

Superintelligence is a dragon

What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI

Casey Newton2mo

Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself

Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work

Casey Newton2mo

How much of my boss's job can AI do?

Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey

Casey Newton2mo

Notes on the third era of slop

Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?

Casey Newton2mo

This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss

Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them

Casey Newton2mo

A big week for AI denialism

In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications

Casey Newton2mo

Congress proposes an AI kill switch

As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control

Casey Newton2mo

The case for making your own apps

Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate

Casey Newton3mo

China has a new top model

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is very good — but the hype may be getting ahead of reality. (For now.)

Casey Newton3mo

The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI

The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead

Casey Newton3mo

The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet

200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI

Casey Newton3mo

OpenAI's big launch — and bigger departure

GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus — and its org chart — in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040."

Casey Newton3mo

Vibe coding has escaped the terminal

Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze

Casey Newton3mo

Why social media bans are gaining steam

How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing

Casey Newton3mo

Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash

AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them

Casey Newton3mo

The CEO of AWS on why Amazon is hiring 11,000 interns and junior employees

Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims. Will the balance hold?

Casey Newton4mo

This founder isn’t hiring junior engineers anymore

And yes, AI is a factor. Replika and Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda on how advances in coding changed her hiring calculus

Casey Newton4mo

Five things I learned from a conversation with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Highlights from Hard Fork Live, including Figma CEO Dylan Field on why design isn’t dead

Casey Newton4mo

How to help knowledge workers who lose their jobs to AI

Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she's leaving her job to create solution for AI's "messy middle." PLUS: Claude Fable arrives

Casey Newton4mo

The Oversight Board knocks Meta over unwarranted account bans

After hundreds of users submitted public comments, the board says it's clear the company has a problem

Casey Newton4mo

An economist's case against the AI jobs-pocalypse

Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans — but argues it's still time for the government to fix the social safety net

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