Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.

This report doesn’t even mention “liquid content,” but it shows what kind of personalization and translation into context-dependent news usage is already possible today with AI. (Leo Necheles, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

Politico’s chatbot for pro users, the Policy Intelligence Assistant, is spitting out made-up stuff when asked, like about a non-existent “League of Left-Handed Plumbers,” according to Semafor.

Google Labs Portraits: Author Kim Scott is letting Google make a chatbot version of her to coach people.

Don’t over-control: A sci-fi author on worldbuilding and storytelling with LLMs. (Eliot Peper, Every)

“Googled ‘I am a pigeon what should I do next’ and the google ai made me an entire itinerary?? With survival tips??” (pipers.jpeg, Threads)

Claude is only allowed one short quote under 15 words from web sources, and may not quote song lyrics in ANY form. (Benj Edwards, Ars Technica)

SEO agency analyzes 75k AI Overviews, finds that one-fifth cited media as sources. 31 percent came from BBC, NYT, and CNN.

Takeaways and key points: The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News on generating AI summaries for news. (Sarah Scire, NiemanLab)

This research paper argues against “reasoning/thinking” hype: intermediate tokens often lack substance, despite appearances.

FLUX.1 Kontext: The Black Forest image machine has new features. Images can now serve as input and be manipulated.

After 6 years in hiding, Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker is back with one of her famous trend reports. This time on AI. 340 pages of statistics.

But AI isn’t creative, isn’t funny, isn’t surprising! Always just average, everything’s been done before. That’s kind of true – but here comes a paper saying: You can actually train LLMs to be creative too. It’s called Creative Preference Optimization.

The OpenAI-suing New York Times is entering into a multi-year partnership with Amazon, with content appearing on Alexa and going into AI training. (Jaspreet Singh, Reuters)

Good Tape transcription: How Denmark’s Zetland build an AI tool that brings in $3 million in annual recurring revenue. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)