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Chris Stokel-Walker

Chris Stokel-Walker is a UK journalist based in Newcastle. He is the author of TikTok Boom: China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media

June 2024

  • ‘The technology needs to be better prepared for prime time.’

    ChatGPT on your iPhone? The four reasons why this is happening far too early

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    The AI’s errors can still be comical and catastrophic. Do we really want this technology to be in so many pockets, asks Chris Stokel-Walker

May 2024

  • The Open AI CEO, Sam Altman.

    Laughing, chatting, singing, GPT-4o is AI close to human, but watch out: it’s really not human

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    It is responsive enough to obscure the fact that it is not a sentient being. It comes with biases; it is a corporate product. Remember that, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

January 2024

  • Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty game.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Cybercrime, AI supremacy and the metaverse – the tech stories that will dominate 2024

    From the future of X to Apple’s Vision Pro headset, we make a call on the deals, products and technologies that could define this year

December 2023

  • Teenage woman checking her phone with her friends nearby, looking for photos or directions or sending a message<br>GettyImages-948544054

    What to do about Sunak’s silly plan to curb social media for under-16s? Highlight and delete

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    The worries about online encryption are overblown. As for teenagers obeying a blanket ban: good luck with that, says tech writer Chris Stokel-Walker

November 2023

  • NFTs of Yuga Labs’ Bored Ape Yacht Club.

    TechScape newsletter
    Techscape: NFTs were meant to change everything – what happened?

    In this week’s newsletter: in early 2022 ‘non-fungible tokens’ were a supposedly revolutionary million-dollar asset. Now, they’re practically worthless

October 2023

  • Rishi Sunak at London Tech Week, in June 2023.

    Rishi Sunak’s AI safety summit appears slick – but look closer and alarm bells start ringing

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    The prime minister wants progress on this tech to be his legacy, but in truth he is failing to equip us for the challenges it brings, says writer Chris Stokel-Walker

September 2023

  • The felled Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland last week

    ‘You can’t put a tree back up’: debate rages about memorial for Sycamore Gap

  • White neon X on top of the HQ of X, formerly known as Twitter, in San Francisco

    The EU may have some success getting tech firms to tackle fake news – but good luck with Elon Musk

    Chris Stokel-Walker
  • A man stands alone in front of a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Changan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: AI-made images mean seeing is no longer believing

  • boy lying on floor watching videos on a laptop

    Take it from someone who was on the internet at 10 years old: a ban won’t keep children off TikTok

    Chris Stokel-Walker

August 2023

  • Social Media User Illustration Photos, Warsaw, Poland - 22 Aug 2023<br>RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (14064518ah) The TikTok logo is seen in this photo illustration on 22 August, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. Social Media User Illustration Photos, Warsaw, Poland - 22 Aug 2023

    The EU has just clamped down on big tech. Britain, take note

    Chris Stokel-Walker
  • Servers to mine crytpo or power AI take an enormous amount of electricity.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Turns out there’s another problem with AI – its environmental toll

July 2023

  • Huw Edwards

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: ‘Lives are ruined in an afternoon’ – social media and the Huw Edwards story

    Content moderation and algorithmic safeguards are meant to help protect the privacy of people in legally contentious cases. So what went wrong?

February 2023

  • Chris Smalls, the leader of Amazon’s first union in New York.

    Amazon union leader flies in to help UK strikers ‘kick down the door’

  • Bard v Bing … whose AI innovation will win out?

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Google and Microsoft are in an AI arms race – who wins could change how we use the internet

  • A person using ChatGPT on a mobile phone

    Today in Focus
    Are chatbots coming for your job?

  • Twitter’s Elon Musk has restricted access to the site’s API – but for how long?

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Why Twitter ending free access to its APIs should be a ‘wake-up call’

January 2023

  • TikTok.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: TikTok has been spying on reporters – exactly no one is surprised

    In this week’s newsletter: Inside the social video app’s new scandal. Plus, Musk continues to Trump tech and Apple might finally make the metaverse interesting

December 2022

  • Teenage boy's face illuminated by laptop screen

    While EU regulators take on Elon Musk, Britain’s online safety bill is a beacon of mediocrity

    Chris Stokel-Walker
    The attempt to bring big tech to heel promised much but, three years on, pleases no one, says the journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker

November 2022

  • The Twitter logo outside the firm’s HQ in San Francisco

    Twitter has ‘50% chance’ of major crash during World Cup, says insider

    Social media giant ill-equipped to deal with traffic spikes after cuts imposed by Elon Musk, according to former employee
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