Ole Reissmann

Hi, I'm Ole Reissmann, a journalist who builds things. I'm the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL. Before that: podcasts, news product development, platform strategy. I write about AI and journalism and send a newsletter you might enjoy.

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Context Engineering

The art of designing, testing, and optimizing prompts remains underappreciated yet crucial. But it matters less for newer “reasoning” models like o3, which attempt to figure out tasks independently. And suddenly prompt engineering feels very 2023—nowadays it’s all about context: giving chatbots access to the right tools and the right knowledge at the right moment....

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ChatGPT Ads has reached a revenue pace equivalent to $1 billion a year, OpenAI says, in less than 200 days. The release is careful to say ads are kept separate from answers, and then promises to make them more native.

Thomson Reuters has built its own frontier models, aimed at legal, tax, and journalism. The open-weight Thomson-1.0-Small is based on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and is on HuggingFace for academic and non-commercial use. Another version stays in-house.

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