AI is disrupting journalism. Now what? If you asked me, this is what I'd suggest spending time on.
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10 Facts Everyone Should Know About AI
So ChatGPT walked into the newsroom, and now everyone's acting like they've discovered fire. Here's what I wish every journalist (and everyone else) knew about AI. This is my practical introduction, without the hype. When we say "AI," we're often talking about ChatGPT and its digital siblings. Large language models that have basically eaten the...
The Summer of AI (Tote Bag Not Included)
If you’re trying to get anything done right now, good luck. Your emails are about to be ghosted by a wall of auto-replies. It’s summer in Europe, which means everyone’s either on a beach or aggressively pretending to read a book by the pool. Can you blame them? The world’s a mess—wars, fascism making a...
Who’s who in the German-speaking LinkedIn universe when it comes to AI and journalism?
You suggested names, I went through my feeds. This list brings together journalists and AI leaders who make a habit of sharing their knowledge.
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...
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...
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...
Google Releases NotebookLM’s Text-to-Speech Tech to Everyone
Google has released new text-to-speech models. It's the same tech powering NotebookLM's conversational podcasts. The models are called Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview TTS. You can try both in Google AI Studio. Or use the API. First, you choose between single-speaker and multi-speaker audio. Then, choose one or two of...
Comparing Google Search with AI Mode
This is a snapshot of a beta feature. It's June 2025. To test Google's AI Mode, you currently have to beam yourself to the US and go to Search Labs. Or you do a Google search, get an AI Overview, and discover, top left, a new feature called "AI Mode". Asked about layoffs at Business...
Everything’s happening at once
Anthropic is releasing Claude 4, Karen Hao’s book “Empire of AI” is out, and Google’s showing off the future of search at I/O.Claude 4? Are you kidding?"I understand the surprise! Yes, this is Claude Sonnet 4 from the Claude 4 model family." My first attempts to send Claude 4 on research tasks with extended reasoning...
It’s crazy what you can build with AI in 1.5 days
Do you want to have a chat with the host of your favorite podcast? Generate a trailer based on emotionally engaging scenes from a movie? Give AI your video material and get a first cut in Premiere, complete with voice-over? How about checking claims made in a video stream in real time? Crazy. That's my...
What would we build today?
What would we build today for people who need trusted, verified information, knowing nothing about newsrooms? That was Nikita Roy's question at the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen, hashtag#NAMS25. Rethinking journalism from first principles. One of the many puzzle pieces came from Helsingin Sanomat editor-in-chief Erja Yläjärvi: "Writing is not a core skill...
AI is a Cult, They Want to Create God and Kill Journalism
That's the narrative. It goes like this: There's a group of powerful people in Silicon Valley who believe in effective altruism, want to live forever, and might be susceptible to fascism. They're not only building AI but believe in a super-intelligence that will have no bias and all the answers. So why not get rid...
Cautiously Optimistic AI Reckoning: Come See Our Talk at re:publica 25
Clare Spencer and I are heading to Berlin to talk about – waves hands dramatically – all of this. Journalism, AI, and whatever else feels relevant in this moment. We named our session AI in Media: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? and pitched this to re:publica: "Two industry insiders take you behind the scenes to...
Sessions on Journalism and AI at the International Journalism Festival 2025 in Perugia
The festival is just around the corner, and here’s my annotated list of sessions focusing on AI and journalism that I plan to attend – and where you’ll likely find me. The session on the ideology behind AI (Captured). Thursday, 11:30 - 12:20, Auditorium San Francesco al Prato. With Natalia Antelava, Coda Story, Isobel Cockerell,...
