Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose × Casey Newton × Dr. Dana Suskind

Washington’s reversal of Anthropic’s Fable 5 restrictions and reported limits on GPT 5.6 shift frontier AI from default release to politically granted access, creating availability risk for businesses built on critical model APIs.Chinese open models may gain from being downloadable and controllable, while parents face a parallel product-screening challenge: Suskind’s DETECT framework favors AI that enhances human connection and rejects companions until safety is established.

Kevin Roose × Casey Newton × Sebastian Mallaby

Google’s AI Mode replaces ten blue links with synthesized answers as it defends a search business that generated $54 billion last quarter, putting the link economy and publishers’ traffic at risk.TollBit found AI interfaces delivered 91% less click-through traffic than conventional search, while Chegg’s collapse shows the exposure; crypto’s expanding ties to ordinary savings and vibe coding’s maintenance debt add further risks to monitor.

Kevin Roose × Casey Newton × PJ Vogt

AI’s investable signal is agency: systems that pursue goals and act in the world may require regulation beyond media-style infrastructure.Potential gains include faster scientific iteration, but alignment, job automation, and the speed of government oversight remain unresolved risks.

Kevin Roose × Casey Newton × David Yaffe-Bellany

Google is putting AI Mode inside Search, a $54 billion last-quarter franchise, replacing 10 blue links with bespoke answers and risking core-business cannibalization.ChatGPT may reach 1% of search by year-end, while defaults could accelerate displacement and Chegg shows the publisher-supplier downside.Trump’s narrower Bitcoin reserve preserves seized holdings, while stablecoin rules, CFTC authority and possible XRP or Solana ETFs could integrate crypto into conventional finance.

Kevin Roose × Casey Newton × Chris Hayes

TikTok has become “Schrödinger’s app”: existing US users can access it after Oracle and Akamai accepted Trump’s non-enforcement promise, while Apple and Google keep ByteDance apps out of stores because statutory exposure is $5,000 per user.The same political discretion is monetizing attention through TRUMP, MELANIA, and Pump.fun, with reported family fees of $58 million and concentrated token holdings, while security updates, corruption concerns, and a potential China-US deal remain unresolved.