This Week In Techdirt History: February 1st – 7th
Five Years Ago
This week in 2021, the attacks on Section 230 were coming fast, with a Columbia law professor spewing blatantly false information in the Wall Street Journal and Joe Lieberman calling fo...
Anthropic spent millions on Super Bowl ads to roast OpenAI
Everyone knows Super Bowl commercials are expensive, bombastic, and designed to be talked about. What we didn’texpect was an AI startup using the biggest ad stage of the year to throw shade at a riv...
Epstein Files’ Most Damning Revelation
Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Parties, PR and Epstein—inside investor Masha Bucher’s charmed ascendance• Artificial Intelligence: OpenClaw, agents and a mania within ...
After OpenClaw, a Wild, Weird Age of Consumer Agents Lies Ahead
Until recently, agentic AI, where AIs can take virtual actions and control computers, seemed like an esoteric technology that wasn’t close to going mainstream—at least for use at home on tasks lik...
