The Information

AI Weapons Need Human Safeguards

A former intelligence watchdog warns that the vast funding asymmetry between AI development and oversight is putting the U.S. in danger.

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Michael K. Atkinson

Michael K. Atkinson is the former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.

Oct 25, 2021 9:00am PDT · 1 comment

Opinion

How to Keep Kids Safe Online? Ask Videogame Designers

Instead of trying to keep kids out of toxic online spaces, we should be building ones where they can thrive—something savvy gamers are already doing.

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Amanda Lenhart

Amanda Lenhart is the program director for health and data at the Data and Society Research Institute.

Oct 12, 2021 9:00am PDT · 5 comments

Opinion

Instagram Isn’t the Only Social Media That’s Hurting Girls

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat—they’re all damaging young psyches, and have been for years.

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Nancy Jo Sales

Nancy Jo Sales is a longtime writer for Vanity Fair, a bestselling author and documentary filmmaker.

Oct 8, 2021 9:00am PDT · 4 comments

What Congress’s Antitrust Proposals Miss

By Steve C. Holtzman · Jul 8, 2021 9:00am PDT

Opinion

What Congress’s Antitrust Proposals Miss

Mobile device makers feel compelled to enter into exclusivity agreements with Google on search and other services, reinforcing the tech giant’s market power.

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Steve C. Holtzman

Steve C. Holtzman has practiced antitrust, intellectual property, technology and constitutional law with the U.S. Department of Justice and in the private sector.

Jul 8, 2021 9:00am PDT

Opinion

Why the Smart Money Is Headed to Europe

More people than ever before are seeing Europe, rather than the U.S., as the best place to invest.

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Mattias Ljungman

Mattias Ljungman, co-founder of Atomico, is founder and managing partner of newly launched seed fund Moonfire.

May 7, 2021 6:01am PDT · 3 comments

Opinion

Apple’s New Privacy Policy Tests the Limits of Its Platform Power

Can Apple contain the widespread unhappiness among app publishers over its broad new privacy rules?

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Eric Seufert

Seufert is an independent analyst who covers the mobile ecosystem through his trade blog, Mobile Dev Memo.

Apr 6, 2021 9:02am PDT · 29 comments

Opinion

What Comes After Radical Candor

It’s bad for business to not acknowledge and fix the injustices in our workplaces.

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Kim Scott

Scott is a former Apple and Google executive and the author of 'Radical Candor' and 'Just Work.'

Mar 23, 2021 9:01am PDT · 9 comments

Take a Hard Look at the Nondisclosure Agreement

By Ariella Steinhorn and Amber Scorah · Mar 10, 2021 10:01am PST · 3 comments

Opinion

Take a Hard Look at the Nondisclosure Agreement

Current NDAs are out of touch with most companies’ professed values. Business leaders could easily rectify that, and California may soon require it.

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Ariella Steinhorn

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Amber Scorah

Steinhorn and Scorah are partners at Lioness.

Mar 10, 2021 10:01am PST · 3 comments

Opinion

Content Alone Will Kill the Creator Economy

Creators should study closely the network effects behind the biggest tech companies’ success.

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Gina Bianchini

Bianchini is founder and CEO of Mighty Networks.

Mar 1, 2021 6:02am PST · 14 comments

Opinion

Data Is the New Sand

Our individual data is just not that valuable. Acknowledging that can guide how we think about its misuse.

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Tim O'Reilly

O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media.

Feb 24, 2021 6:01am PST · 35 comments

Opinion

China Is Winning the Digital Currency War With the U.S.

China aspires to control the world’s reserve currency. In a world where most payments are digital, this is a pretty scary scenario.

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Morgan Beller

Beller is a general partner at VC firm NFX and a co-founder of Diem.

Feb 11, 2021 9:02am PST · 9 comments

A Google worker protest in 2018. Photo by AP

Why Tech Employees Stay

By Mark S. Luckie · Feb 2, 2021 6:01am PST · 9 comments

Opinion

Why Tech Employees Stay

Despite the scandals and unethical behavior that have come to light at some tech companies, pressures—beyond financial incentives—keep people anchored in their jobs.

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Mark S. Luckie

Luckie is a writer and former media partnerships manager at Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.

Feb 2, 2021 6:01am PST · 9 comments

San Francisco in the 1850s. Images courtesy of the Library of Congress

Opinion

What Today’s Tech Leaders Can Learn From 1850s San Francisco

Rather than decamp during tough times, the business community founded institutions in that decade which still form the civic backbone of the city today.

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Roddy Lindsay

Lindsay is a co-founder of Hustle and a former Facebook data scientist.

Jan 25, 2021 9:02am PST · 9 comments

Opinion

How to Curb Tech Executives’ Power

There are structural changes that could make net neutrality’s demise less troubling.

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Roddy Lindsay

Lindsay is a co-founder of Hustle and a former Facebook data scientist.

Jan 18, 2021 6:01am PST · 16 comments

Opinion

Let’s Not Celebrate the Platforms for Kicking Trump Off

As a former insider at social media companies, I can attest their action is not the result of sudden virtue but rather of a lack of moral fortitude for years.

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Mark S. Luckie

Luckie is a writer and former media partnerships manager at Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.

Jan 10, 2021 1:01pm PST · 18 comments

Images by Shutterstock, Bloomberg. Illustration by Mike Sullivan

Apple Should Win Its Intensifying Battle With Facebook

By Dave Edwards · Dec 24, 2020 6:00am PST · 21 comments

Opinion

Apple Should Win Its Intensifying Battle With Facebook

It’s doing the right thing by requiring users to opt in to broad tracking.

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Dave Edwards

Edwards is co-founder of Sonder Studio and a former Apple product marketing director.

Dec 24, 2020 6:00am PST · 21 comments

Opinion

The Underside of Silicon Valley’s Co-Founder Mantra

The unchallenged dogma of tech investors is one structural reason why a shockingly small number of female entrepreneurs get funding.

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Tracy Chou

Chou is the founder and CEO of Block Party.

Dec 1, 2020 9:02am PST · 11 comments

Opinion

Facebook Has a Recipe For Better Social Media. Why Isn’t The Company Using It?

Surveying users to train its algorithms has enormous promise, if only Facebook would risk taking a short-term hit in order to be more socially responsible.

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Roddy Lindsay

Lindsay is a co-founder of Hustle and a former Facebook data scientist.

Nov 27, 2020 6:00am PST · 11 comments

Opinion

To Regulate Social Media, Forget Net Neutrality

Under the Biden administration, we risk reruns of past telco battles when what we need is new focus on internet-specific issues and a government agency to oversee them.

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Roddy Lindsay

Lindsay is a co-founder of Hustle and a former Facebook data scientist.

Nov 24, 2020 6:02am PST · 1 comment