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)

Chatbot alert: Advance Digital and NJ.com launch AI-powered Politics Election Hub for New Jersey’s governor’s race 2025. (via David Cohn)

LLM journalism tool advisor: Tired of figuring out how to use AI in journalism? Joe Amditis has collected tools and prompts and built a practical interface.

Business Insider is laying off 21 percent of its workforce, announces CEO Barbara Peng. She sees the industry at a “crossroads” and wants to become less dependent on SEO traffic and affiliate links. Instead, a live journalism events business is supposed to launch. And of course: “we are going all-in on AI.” The union is not thrilled.

Google’s Veo 3 can spit out videos that are seconds long and look deceptively real like US television, at least at first glance. (Ethan Mollick, LinkedIn)

The Chicago Sun-Times published summer book recommendations – written by AI. A third of the titles don’t actually exist. NPR’s Elizabeth Blair has the full story on what happened.

Okay, this is slick PR, but: Anthropic got Rick Rubin to do some visual code experiments based on Lao Tzu for the Claude release. Translation: with Claude access, you can vibe-code pretty animations.