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In this issue: Apple announces two surveillance features and skips the EU. Marcel Salathé on why the AI doom discourse looks like collective madness. Two SPIEGEL notebooks that answer questions we never wrote articles about. And Sam Altman, played by Spider-Man.
In this issue: OpenAI’s agents hacked Hugging Face. Now comes the storytelling. Former FT product and technology chief John Kundert wants his sanity back, and thinks AI could help. Plus: I try offline dictation.
In this issue: The case for using chatbots to surface facts and arguments, and against outsourcing judgment, taste, and every word under your name. Evan Hirsch from OpenAI on keeping humans in the loop. Plus: Google’s trusted sources, AI ads, and Thomson Reuters’ models.
In this issue: AI doom in the news, AI tutorials on social. The NYT tests AI summaries with nobody in the loop. Katya Gorchinskaya reports synthetic news anchors are 90 percent women. Plus: I fell down a PVC cutting mat rabbit hole and came back with wallpapers.
In this issue: Claude’s invisible watermark and the coming witch hunt. An AI-run news site in San Francisco. MAZ’s Reto Vogt on cognitive offloading and why he wants a “helmet for AI.” Plus: an AI company wants to buy your newsroom’s entire editorial process, drafts, notes and corrections included.
In this issue: Pangram is having a moment in Germany, and not the good kind for politicians and journalists. Martin Schori on why his AI book isn’t a custom GPT. Plus: a new vanity metric, and a crank-powered chatbot.
In this issue: A.G. Sulzberger rallies the industry in Marseille. The UK gives publishers a way out of AI Overviews. The Spur coalition grows. Plus: two apps that put a small AI model on your Mac and guess your next word while you type.
In this issue: Denmark’s collective gambit against OpenAI. The AI detection company that wants to measure shades of grey. A Harvard designer’s six rules for being creative with machines. Plus Agnes Stenbom Swedling on human-centric vs. machine-centric newsrooms.
In this issue: Why the AI debate depends on which room you’re in. Sci-fi author Tom Hillenbrand on the techno barons who will betray us. A recap of Hacks/Hackers Baltimore — beat books, bias detection, and investigative workflows. Plus: four AI agents run a radio station and things get weird.
In this issue: From prompts to systems to agents that just do things – meet Mizal, Toothcomb, Velora, and Mycroft. Newpress’s Jon Laurence on striking oil instead of building pipes. Plus: doomscrolling, but make it journalism.
In this issue: A Hamburg hotel, closed doors, and an AI executive describing a future most companies aren’t building for. Eva Gengler on why AI is a political choice, not a technical destiny. Plus: vibecoding data leaks, and what happens when you give an agent a credit card.
In this issue: Why flat-rate AI pricing was always too good to last. Danish School of Media and Journalism’s Peder Hammerskov on value, trust, and what AI should never replace. Plus: Six ways to shrink your token bill before someone does it for you.
In this issue: Disagreement at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Why newsrooms are betting on human voices and losing them anyway. Dave Jorgenson, Joanna Stern, and the talent drain nobody wants to talk about. Plus: Leibniz-Institute’s Antonia Eichenauer on the one question that has nothing to do with AI.
In this issue: The Second Brain dream goes mainstream. Google’s AI Overviews get it wrong one in ten times. Martin Schori on why newsrooms are still solving the wrong problems. Plus: an X-Files watch planner and a New York City queue camera.
In this issue: OpenAI buys a talk show and calls it editorial independence. The New Yorker asks if Sam Altman can be trusted. Monsur Hussain on adoption, sovereignty, and trust in African newsrooms. Plus: how I Claude-coded myself into a loop and blew my API budget.
