Casey Newton (@caseynewton.bsky.social)

@oldmanweldon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:36 PMReposted by @caseynewton.bsky.social

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:32 PM

i wanted to tell everyone at the same time

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 12:05 AM

At an important AI conference called The Curve this weekend, the big new idea for making AI safe was to put a hard cap on intelligence. I wrote about the debate: www.platformer.news/does-intelli...

At The Curve, I heard multiple speakers say we may want to limit how intelligent a future system is allowed to become. Depending on how far labs take any restrictions, the result could be a de-facto ban on systems reaching superhuman intelligence.

Whether that seems meaningful to you depends on whether you believe recursive self-improvement or superintelligence is even possible given the architecture of the current models. And a lot depends on how you would define and assess “intelligence” here. But it was the most striking idea I heard at a conference full of noteworthy discussions, and its airing in the relatively friendly confines of The Curve may be a preview of a more public discussion sometime soon.

@pixelatedboat.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 10:24 PMReposted by @caseynewton.bsky.social

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:41 PM

well good news ... you only have to wait until the week of October 19! (unless you want to listen on the radio in which case you do have to wait to January)

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:39 PM

unfortunately I did not understand one word of this

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:37 PM

noon PT!

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:36 PM

Yes! sorry should have said

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:34 PM

Going live on Instagram at noon ET with Kevin to discuss OpenAI Dots and take your questions!

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:34 PM

it would be a lot different if people wore smartphones on their faces disguised as something else

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 5:04 PM

It’s proactive — it looks for stuff to do and does it without you asking

@caseynewton.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:52 PM

Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:05 AM

For sure — I’m reviewing all the outputs before I send for that reason

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:24 AM

I spent some time with OpenAI's new agent, Dots, and it's ... pretty good??? www.platformer.news/openai-dots-...

I'm cognizant that any person's account of how they used an AI tool can sound suspiciously close to bragging. Look how impossibly busy I am! Look how desperately I need the aid of an AI tool to have even a remote chance of taming my inbox! It is perfectly reasonable to read a list of tasks like this and think: who cares.

But as someone in the trying-software business, I try to recognize the difference between tools that simply make me feel more productive and those that actually save me time. And given all the searching and typing Kicker did on my behalf this afternoon, I estimate that it did about two hours of work for me with only about 15 minutes of effort on my part. By that I mean it would have taken me two hours to do all that, and now I don't have to, and it feels great.

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 4:47 AM

How was it

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 4:47 AM

Well I imagine I may write about it next week! And we’re doing Instagram Lives every Friday til then as well

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 2:06 AM

However skeptical I am about Muse as a consumer product, I have to admit that the VR Glasses are a real achievement. Some thoughts on Meta Connect www.platformer.news/meta-connect...

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 6:12 PM

How did you find this post 18 months later

@caseynewton.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 12:39 AM

I'm skeptical about Muse www.platformer.news/meta-muse-co...

I hesitate to make too sweeping of a judgment in a world where capabilities are rapidly advancing. For now, though, I suspect that most people do not actually crave the experience of managing an intern. In particular, they do not crave the experience of dreaming up new tasks for the intern and helping the intern to improve. When I talk to the people in my life who have become managers, many will admit to having done so only under duress — and yearn for the day they no longer have to monitor others’ performance.

Perhaps someday an AI system will become so attuned to my needs that it anticipates my every desire and fulfills it perfectly without me so much as having to ask. In the meantime, Muse and its rivals too often feel like to-do lists that generate additional to-do lists, recursively until the end of time. The “typing into a box” era of AI design left much to be desired. But at least I knew when I was done with it.

@cingraham.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 5:07 PMReposted by @caseynewton.bsky.social

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got