Don't. At least not when AI is only used as an auxiliary tool, say in producing an article. When a journalist has used ChatGPT to structure their notes. When an AI proofreads and suggests improvements. Whenever a journalist decides not to use AI as a shortcut, but as a tool. When a journalist remains in...
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Will ChatGPT-5 break me?
Short answer: maybe. Longer answer: I'm a runner. On September 21, I'll be shoulder to shoulder with 50,000 other masochists at the Berlin Marathon, trying to shave three minutes off my time from the previous year. (Idea initially shared in my newsletter, then made into a posting.) I have a solid training plan. Problem is:...
I tried ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet to actually get things done
I've been playing with ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet—and I'm not sure if I'm witnessing the future of productivity or just an elaborate way to make simple tasks more complicated. The premise sounds great: tell an AI what you want, and it'll just… do it. Book your train tickets, find that obscure book, curate a...
Rise of the Fakecast: The Uncanny Valley of AI-Generated Podcasts
Research question: Given a newsletter and three articles mentioned therein, can AI make a passable podcast fakecast? Time constraint: 60 minutes Setup: Claude 4 Opus, Gemini 2.5 Text-to-Speech Result: 14-minute podcast Is it any good? At first, it seems impressive. I like how the different sources get incorporated, with the speakers looping back to arguments...
Rename screenshots with a description automatically with Gemini–for free
Screenshots. I take lots of them. I need something I see in my browser for a presentation. I want to remember something I see on social media on my phone. So. Many. Screenshots. And then what? Google has launched a tool to access Gemini 2.5 Pro from the command line. It’s called Gemini-CLI, and it...
How AI Companies Turn Your Browser Into Their Business Model
OpenAI will launch a browser, Perplexity has just released Comet, and YouTubers are going full clickbait mode: "NEW AI Browser is INSANE!🤯" (Really? It's insane to chat with tabs? That word gets used pretty liberally these days, considering it's AI-bros getting excited about summarizing five YouTube videos simultaneously while doing important thought leadership. Anyhow.) The...
Getting Started: Essential AI and Journalism Resources
AI is disrupting journalism. Now what? If you asked me, this is what I'd suggest spending time on.
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...
