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This is not one of those “superintelligence is just around the corner” pieces, but rather asks if maybe we’re already learning too much about our own brains, demystifying thinking and its implications. You can’t know too much, can you? (James Somers, The New Yorker)
Make this your weekend read: Designer Frank Chimero talks about AI and specifically vibe coding. “Time saved is not strength gained,” he says, and gets into how Brian Eno works with machines for his music. And then there is a nice riff on the Ghibli movie “Spirited Away”. Recommended!
The BBC wants to make its AI use transparent to users – and is coming up with a new icon: Sparkles out, nondescript, boring, unobtrusive hexagon in.
How is the agentic web going? Amazon filed a lawsuit demanding Perplexity stop allowing its AI browser Comet to make purchases for users. (Shirin Ghaffary and Matt Day, Bloomberg)
A visit to the nonprofit that powers most of today’s AI training: Common Crawl ingests the web, journalism and all, unapologetically. The article falls a bit short on fair use and other archives, but it’s a good read. (Alex Reisner, The Atlantic)
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When Curation Meets Automation
with Digital Acceleration Partners' David Chivers
AI Studies and Gotcha Headlines
with News Alchemist Mattia Peretti
Workslop, Erotica, and the Future Nobody Asked For
with foresight expert Konrad Weber
The Three AI Tools I’d Actually Miss
with 22 questions from Matthias Fiedler
When Chatbots Start Asking the Questions
with Science Journalist Santina Russo
Attention Heads
“Not only is there no agreement on what AI literacy is, but also a lot of what people call AI literacy is already out-of-date or just plain wrong.”
Ethan Mollick, July 2025
When I'm asked about resources for news products and editorial development, I'm more often than not referring to these sites:
News Product Resources
“User needs in content publishing: the slide that started it all, five years later (Dmitry Shishkin, LinkedIn)”
“Digital Innovation Playbook” verspricht einen pragmatischen Rahmen und ein Werkzeugset für Produktentwicklerinnen und Managerinnen.
Quartz, once a beacon of business journalism, is now a media zombie after being acquired by private equity (Obituray by co-founder Zach Seward)
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