kate conger

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tech reporter for the NYT! co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT! signal: kateconger.11 buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger

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I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

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  • Cloudflare data shows AI-training crawlers hit 52% of crawler requests by June 2026, up from 22% in spring 2025.
  • Google still supplies roughly 88% of referral traffic, but is answering more queries in-place via AI Overviews and AI Mode.
  • Human traffic to the most heavily crawled categories, including software, IT, retail and finance, has fallen as much as 40% in under a year.
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"His chief of staff passed around a stack of NDAs and freshly baked peanut butter cookies." Just insane level of detail in this @elitan.bsky.social story www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 133 ↻ 54 ↩ 0 · 10 from the directory shared this · 1d ago

Instagram saw all the nonconsensual imagery generated by Grok earlier this year and still decided to opt in all of its adult users to having their photos "remixed" by AI www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 264 ↻ 108 ↩ 3 · 3 from the directory shared this · 20d ago

celebrating my 8 year anniversary at the NYT by, of course, publishing a story www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/t...

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  • Twenty-five companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and IBM signed a July 24 letter urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AI models.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet and Amazon were absent; OpenAI added its signature only after the omission was widely noticed on X.
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called open source 'a red herring,' while David Sacks accused the closed labs of pursuing regulatory capture.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 64 ↻ 9 ↩ 3 · 5 from the directory shared this · 3d ago

we worked on a big study of this issue a few months ago www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

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