They speak our language, but it does not appear to constrain their thought: “AIs tend to express liberal, secular values even when asked in languages where the typical speaker does not share those values.” Fascinating research by Kelsey Piper.

Channel4 had a segment about AI-driven job loss presented by an AI host—and the Guardian published a hilarious (if not predictably) takedown. (Stuart Heritage, The Guardian)

The Journalism Benchmark Cookbook: We prototyped a benchmark evaluating the task of information extraction in journalism. (Charlotte Li, Jeremy Gilbert, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

Why you shouldn’t use AI browsers like Atlas or Comet with logins to email, SharePoint or any other online service right now—even though that’s a major part of what makes an AI browser interesting. (Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Is fine-tuning having a moment again? After being overshadowed by bigger, shinier models, it’s creeping back into the conversation—and this time, it might actually stick. (Kevin Kuipers, Sota)

AI-generated ‘poverty porn’: Prominent NGOs use biased, sensationalized visuals in global health campaigns, perpetuating harmful tropes about the poor. (Aisha Down, The Guardian)

The current AI browser landscape and what it means for publishers: How content is used, and whether compensation or licensing is on the table. (Bertrand de Volontat, Nordot)

Our AI Narration Plugin is yours to use: If you’re running a newsroom on WordPress, you can now spin up AI-generated audio versions of your articles without having to cobble together some Frankenstein workflow involving three different APIs and a prayer. (Rest of World)

Sora Watermarker: Add the Sora watermark to any video.

What if we let ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini cosplay as famous authors? Would anyone notice? Would critics swoon? Would readers care? Spoiler alert: finetuning works really good, a new study finds. (Rosalia Anna D’Agostino, LinkedIn)

“Should news publishers build for ChatGPT’s 800M users? Dug into OpenAI’s new Apps SDK documentation and the implications are fascinating.” (Florent Daudens, LinkedIn)

Generative AI and news report 2025: “We document rapid growth in the use of a new set of tools bound to impact the discovery of information, how people use it, and, by extension over time, changing competition for both attention, advertising, and the money people are willing to spend on media and content.” (Felix Simon, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Reuters Institute)