Transformer Lab is an open-source platform for building, tuning, and running LLMs locally, sans coding.

Seamless MCP-powered integrations sound appealing, but raise performance and security concerns. (Shrivu’s Substack)

Deep-dive into RAG and evaluation: How Süddeutsche built their election chatbot. (Medium)

Asking the tough question: “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?” (Radek Sienkiewicz, VelvetShark)

“Stories that just could not be told without the assistance of AI”: NYT’s Zach Seward leans on AI tools, yet remains skeptical of AI-generated content. (Depth Perception)

Quartz, once a beacon of business journalism, is now a media zombie after being acquired by private equity (Obituray by co-founder Zach Seward)

Disgruntled Substack writers ditch 10% fees for flat-rate rivals, netting 20-25% more revenue. (Digiday)

AI is disrupting business models, warns Joshua Rothman: “We could be left with A.I.-summarized wire reports, Substacks, and not much else.” At the same time, he finds working with AI search “efficient, fun, and intellectually stimulating.” (The New Yorker)

Judicial panel overrides author preferences, bundles diverse copyright claims against AI companies into single NY proceeding. (Ella Creamer, The Guardian)

The doomsday fantasy of effective altruists: The “AI in 2027” report imagines wild scenarios. Kevin Roose is less impressed. (New York Times)

OpenAI’s latest Ghibli meme trend brazenly exploits Miyazaki’s longstanding criticism of AI. (Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine)

Is this already ‘agentic’? Google’s NotebookLM now searches and incorporates relevant web content.

Preparing a feast only to have it eaten by ghosts who don’t leave a tip: Wikipedia plans to regulate bot access and wants new attribution guidelines for web, apps, voice assistants, and LLMs. (Wikimedia)

We see clunky AI applications and resist the hype – this article makes the argument that we’re not caring enough about it. (Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker)

Dystopian vision or pragmatic future? Newsquest’s AI-powered content creators stir fears of eroded journalistic standards. (Bron Maher, Press Gazette)