…The response in the lead-up to the World Cup, meanwhile, has been particularly muted. There’s a good reason for this beyond shifting platform dynamics: The vibes around this World Cup…
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…You wrote that amazing article on how, with social media platforms, the product is the policy. The product is trust and safety. It is content policy, which I think Elon learned the…
…to be gay,” company leadership felt an urgent responsibility to protect their user base. The upfront way to do that was through policy wins and shaping laws, but he also felt like…
…As local compute grows in capability, there’s a clear gap that Microsoft and Nvidia can fill with powerful hardware you actually own. “I think we, as Microsoft, have the responsibility for…
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…Even after several days of statements, reports, and negotiations, it’s still unclear what actually happened behind the scenes, and it’s even less clear who’s responsible for what could have…
…Where it came together was the technology platform. We started really pushing this idea of consumer-side platform, driver-side platform. To the extent we could get consumers to use both Rides…
…Google. “The systems we were talking about were not futuristic,” said Marijan, who is a senior researcher at Project Ploughshares, a peace-focused independent research institute. “They were existing platforms that had…