“A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.” is a love letter to NotebookLM and how historians are using it to analyze data and structure books. (Bill Wasik, New York Times Magazine)
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The rise of retrieval bots raises questions about data ownership, monetization, and the future of the open web. (Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post)
What makes workflows different from agents? A good introduction and explanation from Anthropic, and a case for keeping things simple.
How to Connect Claude and WordPress via MCP
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...
Outrage me: Your deepest, darkest user needs and the emotional economics of modern journalism. (Peter Erdelyi, Media Finance Monitor)
Google’s AI Mode could deal a devastating blow to the web’s business model. (Thomas Germain, BBC)
Metrics mutate: SEO rankings and clicks out, “embedding relevance” and “chunk retrieval” in as GenAI rewrites the rules of engagement. (Duane Forrester Decodes)
After killing the article, sure, why not kill the author next? This slightly unsettling essay argues that authors don’t matter that much in the first place. Rude. (David J. Gunkel, Noema)
Chatbot alert: International News Media Association launches AI-powered “Ask INMA”, tapping internal content for on-demand media insights.
Who to follow: 75 expert voices at the intersection of AI and journalism (Marcela Kunova and Jacob Granger, journalism.co.uk)
Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.
Google is turning search results into podcasts
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...
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)
