You suggested names, I went through my feeds. This list brings together journalists and AI leaders who make a habit of sharing their knowledge.
/ AI & Journalism
Testing Dia: The AI Browser Betting on a Future Beyond Chrome and Siri
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...
So… is ChatGPT making us dumb? A viral MIT study, what it actually found, and the delicious irony of how we consume research. (Steffi Kieffer, Substack)
What was reading? Humans turn to AI, viewing text as fungible and blurring the line between primary and secondary sources (Joshua Rothman, New Yorker)
Another fun one: Cloudflare CEO warns of AI-driven “existential threat” to publishers as search traffic dwindles amid bot-fueled content skimming. (Christine Wang, Axios)
People expect that AI will make news cheaper, more current, and easier to understand, one of the findings of the 2025 Digital News Report. (Nic Newman, Reuters Institute)
Not an easy time for dash fans: This Chrome plugin makes AI text feel more human by removing em-dashes (—) as you type or paste.
Yes to deals, payments, and control: Meredith Levien, CEO of The New York Times, talks about the Amazon-deal. She likes to think of Times journalism as “IP”, not “data”. (Adweek, soon on the Mixed Signals podcast from Semafor)
OpenAI is launching its own podcast where Sam Altman claims that coding with o3 gives people their next big “wow moment.” He suggests that while his AI won’t exactly cure cancer, it will make researchers more productive. Of course, critical questions are missing.
Against chatbots: Why we need human-centric tools, not user-hostile interfaces. (tante)
“Use responsibly when recording others”: ChatGPT Record captures and summarizes meetings and voice notes.
LLMs have a “lost in the middle” problem – they focus on the start and end of documents but miss key info in between. (Adam Zewe, MIT News)
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30 People to Follow at the Intersection of AI and Academic Publishing. (Helen King, LinkedIn)
Time launches AI audio briefing featuring four-minute podcasts based on its flagship newsletter, with voices from OpenAI called Henry and Lucy.
