OpenAI will launch a browser, Perplexity has just released Comet, and YouTubers are going full clickbait mode: "NEW AI Browser is INSANE!🤯" (Really? It's insane to chat with tabs? That word gets used pretty liberally these days, considering it's AI-bros getting excited about summarizing five YouTube videos simultaneously while doing important thought leadership. Anyhow.) The...

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AI is disrupting journalism. Now what? If you asked me, this is what I'd suggest spending time on.

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So ChatGPT walked into the newsroom, and now everyone's acting like they've discovered fire. Here's what I wish every journalist (and everyone else) knew about AI. This is my practical introduction, without the hype. When we say "AI," we're often talking about ChatGPT and its digital siblings. Large language models that have basically eaten the...

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If you’re trying to get anything done right now, good luck. Your emails are about to be ghosted by a wall of auto-replies. It’s summer in Europe, which means everyone’s either on a beach or aggressively pretending to read a book by the pool. Can you blame them? The world’s a mess—wars, fascism making a...

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You suggested names, I went through my feeds. This list brings together journalists and AI leaders who make a habit of sharing their knowledge.

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For the last ten days, I've been using Dia, a new AI-enhanced web browser. So far, it's not going great. But first, let's look at the premise. Several players are racing to slap AI onto our everyday web use, betting that we're not ditching the whole "sitting in front of a screen to get things...

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I want to work with my blog posts in Claude. I could copy blog posts into the chat. But isn't there an easier way? Yes! What you need: A WordPress blog, Claude Desktop, 30 minutes. No more copy and paste. MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, the link between Large Language Models like Claude and...

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One click, and you’ve got two AI voices having what sounds like the world's most scripted coffee shop conversation about whatever you just Googled. It’s called Audio Overviews and works like the feature in NotebookLM, powered by Gemini's text-to-speech. As usual, it’s only live in Search Labs in the US for now. And weirdly, it's...

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Google has released new text-to-speech models. It's the same tech powering NotebookLM's conversational podcasts. The models are called Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview TTS. You can try both in Google AI Studio. Or use the API. First, you choose between single-speaker and multi-speaker audio. Then, choose one or two of...

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This is a snapshot of a beta feature. It's June 2025. To test Google's AI Mode, you currently have to beam yourself to the US and go to Search Labs. Or you do a Google search, get an AI Overview, and discover, top left, a new feature called "AI Mode". Asked about layoffs at Business...

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Anthropic is releasing Claude 4, Karen Hao’s book “Empire of AI” is out, and Google’s showing off the future of search at I/O.Claude 4? Are you kidding?"I understand the surprise! Yes, this is Claude Sonnet 4 from the Claude 4 model family." My first attempts to send Claude 4 on research tasks with extended reasoning...

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Do you want to have a chat with the host of your favorite podcast? Generate a trailer based on emotionally engaging scenes from a movie? Give AI your video material and get a first cut in Premiere, complete with voice-over? How about checking claims made in a video stream in real time? Crazy. That's my...

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What would we build today for people who need trusted, verified information, knowing nothing about newsrooms? That was Nikita Roy's question at the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen, hashtag#NAMS25. Rethinking journalism from first principles. One of the many puzzle pieces came from Helsingin Sanomat editor-in-chief Erja Yläjärvi: "Writing is not a core skill...

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That's the narrative. It goes like this: There's a group of powerful people in Silicon Valley who believe in effective altruism, want to live forever, and might be susceptible to fascism. They're not only building AI but believe in a super-intelligence that will have no bias and all the answers. So why not get rid...

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Clare Spencer and I are heading to Berlin to talk about – waves hands dramatically – all of this. Journalism, AI, and whatever else feels relevant in this moment. We named our session AI in Media: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? and pitched this to re:publica: "Two industry insiders take you behind the scenes to...

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