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<span class="preheader" style="color: transparent; display: none; height: 0; max-height: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; visibility: hidden; width: 0;">AI-generated media is generating millions of views. But some companies are beginning to rein it in</span>
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<p class="post-excerpt post-excerpt-with-feature-image" style="margin: 0; color: #15212A; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: center; padding-bottom: 28px;">AI-generated media is generating millions of views. But some companies are beginning to rein it in</p>
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By Casey Newton • <span class="post-meta-date" style="white-space: nowrap;">16 Oct 2025 </span>
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</tbody></table><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 1.5em; color: #15212A;"><em>This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See </em><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/556e485e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em><u>my full ethics disclosure here</u></em></a><em>.</em></p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Today, let's talk about how platforms are responding to the rise of slop.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">To some AI insiders, the novelty of OpenAI's Sora video generation tool has <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/38f9f370?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">begun to wear off</a>. The videos feel same-y; the creative tools are limited; and also there's that nagging feeling that looking at Sora too long cooks your brain. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">At the same time, two weeks after its release, Sora remains the No. 1 free app in the US App Store. And OpenAI is continuing to iterate on it, announcing on Wednesday that the app can now be used to generate videos of <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/46eb69a9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">up to 25 seconds</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In Sora we find the entire debate over AI-generated media in miniature. On one hand, the content now widely derided as "slop" continually receives brickbats on social media, in blog posts and in YouTube comments. And on the other, some AI-generated material is generating millions of views — presumably not all from people who are hate-watching it.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The popularity of surreal AI genres such as "<a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e154f258?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">slicing through glass fruit</a>," <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/32552801?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Italian brainrot</a>, and <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b53d01de?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">shrimp Jesus</a> helps to explain much of the disdain for them. If slop weren't occasionally compelling, we might feel like we could safely ignore it. But to some relatively large audience, they are, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e18f97ca?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">the 3 million views</a> on this AI clip of a knife slicing through glass pancakes and waffles attest.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">And so if you're the sort of person who prefers your internet man-made — or at least in healthy balance with AI models — the rise of slop understandably feels like a threat. Increasingly, a coalition of average people and copyright holders are pushing the platforms themselves to take action — and they're beginning to see some success.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">One place where this has been true is Pinterest. The mood board site, which has been <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a6c532cc?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">besieged</a> by AI-generated imagery over the past year, on Thursday introduced a feature to allow users to limit (but not entirely block) AI-generated images in their recommendations. The change followed a move earlier this year to begin <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/96306913?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">labeling AI-generated images</a> as such.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">As Sarah Perez <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b8ccea0c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">noted at <em>TechCrunch</em></a>, Pinterest has come under fire from its user base all year for a perceived decline in quality of the service as the percentage of slop there increases. Many people use the service to find real objects they can buy and use; the more that those objects are replaced with AI fantasies, the worse Pinterest becomes for them. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Like most platforms, Pinterest sees little value in banning slop altogether. After all, some people enjoy looking at fantastical AI creations. At the same time, its success depends in some part on creators believing that there is value in populating the site with authentic photos and videos. The more that Pinterest's various surfaces are dominated by slop, the less motivated traditional creators may be to post there.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Spotify faces a similar challenge. The advent of AI music tools like Suno and Udio now lets anyone create a relatively cohesive song within seconds, often with voices that sound very similar to superstars. The result is that artists now have a new threat to monitor, lest someone clone three popular voices and create a song that briefly charts on Spotify — as was the case with <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/62ac1417?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">this fake collaboration</a> between Bad Bunny, Justin Bieber and Daddy Yankee. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In <em>Rest of World</em>, Laura Rodríguez Salamanca surveyed the music industry in Latin America and found that music slop is increasingly crowding out the real thing. <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/48949d75?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">One study</a> she cites predicts that AI songs will account for 20 percent of streaming platform revenue by 2028.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">"The music isn’t great, but it still sucks away limited streaming income from real artists," she writes. "The speed and volume of new AI music is now exhausting human artists and distracting listeners, said people in the Latin music industry."</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Some artists are using AI in creative ways. In particular, tools like Suno seem to have inspired a new generation of parody songwriters, who have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok this year with profane songs designed to shock parents. (I haven't been able to get "<a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/cbac88ad?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Country Girls Make Do</a>" out of my head all year.) </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">But the majority of AI-generated uploads to streaming services are likely spam. And under pressure from record labels to take action, Spotify said last month that <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e8177c41?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">it had removed 75 million spam tracks</a> from the service over the past year. The company introduced stronger rules against impersonation, a new music spam filter, and a way for responsible artists to disclose their use of AI on a voluntary basis.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Like Pinterest, the deluge of AI content also represents an opportunity. Even as it fights to stem the tide of slop, today Spotify announced a partnership with the major record labels to develop "responsible" AI products. While the company offered few details, it said it is establishing a "generative AI research lab and product team," according to <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/97c0f670?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Steven J. Horowitz in <em>Variety</em></a>. It also seems to be planning a way for artists to opt in to letting fans use generative music tools with licensed music, available to artists who opt in.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Any platform that lets people upload media will find itself swimming in slop whether it wants to be or not. But for some companies, the slop is self-inflicted.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Last year Reddit introduced <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/72313b45?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Reddit Answers</a>, a ChatGPT-like chatbot with access to the platform's posts. It is now in beta in Reddit forums, and moderators cannot disable it. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">That became an issue this week when a user in the r/FamilyMedicine subreddit suggested that users who are interested in pain management could try heroin. As Emanuel Mainberg <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4227b0d6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">writes at <em>404 Media</em></a>, Reddit Answers also recommended that users try kratom, which is illegal in some states.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">The company said today that it would no longer display Reddit Answers under "sensitive topics."</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">All of these platforms are generally designed to get you to spend more time there. The promise of synthetic media is that they will soon have a cheap, abundant resource that makes their products more compelling than ever before. For the moment, though, that abundant resource is also eroding their customers' trust at a rapid clip. At platform scale, a big surge of slop really can make everything worse — and tech companies are now beginning to take that threat seriously.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/size/w1600/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fc2a8d7e3-b0bc-4fd2-a8e7-dd07c8877df0_2912x728.jpg" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="150" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">On the podcast this week: </strong>Kevin and I sort through California's sweeping effort to regulate social media and AI. Then, Encode general counsel Nathan Calvin joins us to discuss OpenAI's recent <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a67cb2f1?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">lawfare against its critics</a>. And finally, we present the Hard Fork Review of Slop.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/9d8ccb74?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Apple</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/5ccb9558?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Spotify</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/6a2481bd?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Stitcher</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/90c1f5f3?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Amazon</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f929c463?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong></a><strong style="font-weight: 700;"> | </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/889f2816?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">YouTube</strong></a></p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sponsored</strong></p><h3 id="cut-code-review-time-bugs-in-half" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Cut Code Review Time & Bugs in Half</h3><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/be3a1156?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2025/10/image.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="300" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></a></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Code reviews are critical but time-consuming. 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This week the <em>Financial Times</em> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4ceb2f6c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>reported on</u></a> how a collection of ten money-losing startups — including <strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI</strong>, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Anthropic</strong>, and <strong style="font-weight: 700;">xAI</strong> — have gained roughly $1 <em>trillion</em> in valuation this year. AI investments account for about two-thirds of American venture capital investment this year, totaling $161 billion. VCs are saying that startups are seeking much higher valuations than their numbers would have warranted in prior tech booms, although they also said that during all previous tech booms.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">For its part, OpenAI <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/cb8d0f1b?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>has made a five-year business plan</u></a> for how it’s going to acquire the trillion-plus dollars it has already pledged to spend on AI technology. It includes selling bespoke products to governments and businesses, making new shopping tools, online advertising, and consumer hardware products. They’re also considering “creative” plans to raise new debt — another hallmark of a bubble.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Meanwhile, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Meta</strong> continues to make big investments in AI infrastructure. The company announced it <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/bd7f0dd6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>plans to spend $1.5 billion</u></a> on a 1GW data center in <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Texas</strong>; the company will spend as much as $72 billion on infrastructure investments this year, much of which will go to AI. (That's still remarkably less than OpenAI plans to spend, assuming you believe them.)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">As for <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Anthropic</strong>, this week the company was reported to <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/3a732b2c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>hold funding talks</u></a> with UAE investment firm <strong style="font-weight: 700;">MGX</strong> during CEO <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Dario Amodei</strong>’s tour of the Middle East. (The <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a94812e0?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">July controversy</a> over that one, which resulted in the first major leak to the press out of that company, seems to have died down.) Anthropic is entering those talks with considerable momentum: Reuters reports that the company is on track to hit $9 billion in annualized revenue this year <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/6269b6cd?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>and projects as much as</u></a> $26 billion annualized revenue next year. (It was at $1 billion in ARR in January.)</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Why we’re following:</strong> AI is swallowing the economy — at least, the part that's growing quickly. Even as many investors and companies remain bullish, huge investments and odd financing schemes are raising some eyebrows. At the same time, revenue growth like Anthropic is now seeing will continue to put dollar signs in investors' eyes.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What people are saying:</strong> “Of course there’s a bubble,” <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Hemant Taneja</strong>, chief executive of venture capital firm <strong style="font-weight: 700;">General Catalyst</strong>, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2fe8e6a6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>told</u></a> the <em>Financial Times</em>. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.” </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Discussing OpenAI’s business model, a senior OpenAI executive <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/fc08e5ef?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>told</u></a> the <em>Financial Times</em> that “right now I’d say there’s lots of fuzz on the horizon.” But they’re optimistic: “as it gets closer… it’s going to start to take real shape.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Meanwhile, a viral <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong> post by user <strong style="font-weight: 700;">account_blown</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/62f36b71?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>announced</u></a> “BREAKING: OpenAI to partner with OpenAI to help fund OpenAI. OpenAI up 90%.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In a popular <strong style="font-weight: 700;">YouTube</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/450a5385?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>short</u></a>, tech influencer <strong style="font-weight: 700;">CarterPCs</strong> expressed skepticism about <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sora</strong> and OpenAI's ability to turn a profit: “They’re getting these hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and charging 9.99 for subscriptions. Something’s not gonna work there.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">YouTuber <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Hank Green</strong> released a video called <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/328d4f6a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>The State of the AI Industry is Freaking Me Out</u></a>. In particular, he expressed concern about circular investments –including those between <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Nvidia</strong>, OpenAI, xAI, and other AI companies. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“Is it true that the demand for Nvidia's chips is increasing, or is Nvidia creating that demand?” he asked. “Why does Nvidia have to invest in these companies in order for them to buy their chips?”</p><table class="kg-card kg-hr-card" role="presentation" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; margin: 0; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; font-size: 17px;" valign="top"><!--[if !mso]><!-- --><hr style="position: relative; width: 100%; margin: 3em 0; padding: 0; height: 1px; background-color: transparent; border: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; display: none;"><!--<![endif]--><table class="kg-hr" role="presentation" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: separate; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; width: 100%;" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: #15212A; padding-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 3em; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-top: 1px solid #e0e7eb; font-size: 0; line-height: 0;" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 id="crony-capitalism-watch" style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 0; color: #15212A;">Crony capitalism watch</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What happened:</strong> More than three dozen companies and their representatives, including those from from <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Microsoft</strong>, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Meta</strong>, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong>, and <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Amazon</strong>, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/12d52094?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>attended</u></a> a fundraising dinner at the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">White House</strong> Wednesday evening. The goal, according to the invitation: to “Establish the Magnificent White House Ballroom.” It will cost $250 million to build, and the tech companies are all too eager to pay up.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Thanks to <strong style="font-weight: 700;">YouTube</strong>’s shameful agreement in late September to settle a 2021 lawsuit over its suspension of Trump’s account after the Jan. 6 insurrection, <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong> has already funded the ballroom to the tune of $22 million. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Now, Senate Democrats <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/8a95986c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>want to know</u></a> whether that settlement should be considered a bribe. Noting the ongoing antitrust case against the company, a group of senators sent a letter to Google CEO <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sundar Pichai</strong> and YouTube CEO <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Neal Mohan</strong> to ask about how the settlement will influence the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">DOJ</strong>’s decision on whether to ask for stricter remedies for Google’s illegal ad and search monopolies. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Why we’re following: </strong>Even in a time when anyone with money and power can seemingly get away with anything, it's still a shock to see the world's biggest companies lining up to buy the president's favor. Transactions that would have been unimaginable as little as 10 months ago are now <em>de rigeur</em>. It's hard to imagine much coming of the Democrats' letter, but at least they bothered to send it. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">What people are saying: Sen. Elizabeth Warren</strong>, one of the senators who signed the letter to Google, <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e85f8d3d?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>questioned</u></a> the ballroom dinner on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong>: <strong style="font-weight: 700;">“</strong>What are these billionaires and giant corporations getting in exchange for donating to Donald Trump's $200 million ballroom? Do they think we're dumb enough to believe they're giving their money away for free?”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">“Every company that is invited to that dinner that either doesn’t show or doesn’t give knows now they will be out of favor with the Trump administration,” <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claire Finkelstein</strong>, a <strong style="font-weight: 700;">University of Pennsylvania</strong> law professor, told the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>.</p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><h3 id="side-quests" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Side Quests</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">How the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Trump</strong> companies <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/257effc6?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>made $1 billion</u></a> in crypto so far. (You will probably guess.) Trump’s <strong style="font-weight: 700;">TikTok</strong> deal could give the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">US</strong> government <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/dc0c3709?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>unprecedented sway</u></a> on social media. The <strong style="font-weight: 700;">EFF</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/126ccb93?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>sued</u></a> the Trump administration over alleged mass surveillance of legal residents on social media. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">White House AI czar <strong style="font-weight: 700;">David Sacks</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/92292486?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>said</u></a> <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Anthropic</strong>’s regulatory approach was based on “fear-mongering” and "regulatory capture." (Did he forget that he and his friends run the federal government?) <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Google</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/30e5168c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>allowed</u></a> an Israeli<strong style="font-weight: 700;"> </strong>influence campaign on <strong style="font-weight: 700;">YouTube</strong> claiming Gazans have access to food to remain online despite complaints. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/945ac0a4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Pew</strong> survey</u></a>: most people around the world are more concerned than excited about AI, and trust their countries and the <strong style="font-weight: 700;">EU</strong> to regulate it more than they trust the United States or <strong style="font-weight: 700;">China</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Europe’s data center rollout is <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/93f5d89e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>raising concerns</u></a> about water scarcity. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Japan</strong> asked <strong style="font-weight: 700;">OpenAI</strong> to <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/0ec0d2c0?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>refrain from</u></a> infringing on anime and manga IPs. (I'm sure OpenAI will get right on that.) <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Tim Cook</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/0519f245?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>pledged</u></a> to boost <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Apple</strong>’s investment in China. Chinese criminal operations <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1ef67a96?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>made $1 billion</u></a> over the last three years through text scams. The AI chatbots <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e99f2324?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>replacing</u></a> <strong style="font-weight: 700;">India</strong>’s call-center workers. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Microsoft</strong> reportedly <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b2af14c9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>plans</u></a> to produce most of its products outside of China. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">OpenAI plans to let you <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b1cf77c5?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>log in with ChatGPT</u></a>. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Sora 2</strong> users can now <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a3c93be8?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>generate</u></a> up to 25 seconds of video, if you're on the Pro plan. Google introduced <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/7a12f479?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>new capabilities</u></a> in its AI filmmaking tool <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Flow</strong> alongside the release of <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Veo 3.1</strong>. Anthropic released <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/090eb32b?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Claude Haiku 4.5</u></strong></a> and added <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/98173de2?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Skills</u></a> for <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Claude</strong>. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Meta </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b6a00223?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>partnered</u></a> with Arm Holdings to power AI recommendations across its apps. Apple’s head of AI web search <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Ke Yang</strong> is reportedly <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/98f78722?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>leaving</u></a> for Meta, dealing another blow to Apple's snakebitten AI efforts.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Jeff Bezos</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/d6d1a1fb?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>now owns</u></a> less than 10 percent of <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Amazon</strong> after selling 100 million shares. Q&A with YouTube CEO <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Neal Mohan</strong> on <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a07f7ef7?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>his vision</u></a> for the future of entertainment. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Meta added <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/a784ee25?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>group chats</u></a> to <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Threads</strong>. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">X</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/40d7133c?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>will display</u></a> more information on user profiles. <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Waymo</strong> is expanding to <strong style="font-weight: 700;">London</strong>.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Apple</strong>’s new lineup gets an M5 chip overhaul—including the new <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/aadb82d4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;"><u>iPad Pro</u></strong></a>, the new 14-inch <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/6e64f0eb?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;"><u>MacBook Pro</u></strong></a>, and the <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b4ec04ff?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><strong style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Vision Pro</u></strong></a> headset. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Black hole theoretical physicist <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Alex Lupsasca</strong> <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/b14aebc9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>joined</u></a> OpenAI’s science initiative. A <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Gemma</strong> model <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/59b112c7?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>found</u></a> a potential new pathway to treat cancer. Google’s <strong style="font-weight: 700;">Flood Hub </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/6807272a?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>helped Bangladeshi farmers</u></a> predict floods early. How health providers <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/cead03f4?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>use AI</u></a> to quantify pain. 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