Hi, I'm Ole Reissmann, a journalist who builds things. I'm the first Director of AI at SPIEGEL. Before that: podcasts, news product development, platform strategy. I write about AI and journalism and send a newsletter you might enjoy.
How much AI went into a text is hard to guess from the outside, but the CEO of AI detection tool Pangram wants to make it his business: “We’re trying to understand degrees of AI assistance. To be able to say this text was translated by AI, or this had a light polish pass, versus this was generated wholesale from a prompt.” (Ochuko Akpovbovbo, as seen on)
A designer explains how he teaches his Harvard students to be creative with AI: Interrogate it, iterate on it, stay with it longer than feels efficient, treat its output as something to work on rather than accept, misuse the technology, and show your prompts. (Eric Rodenbeck, Harvard Design Magazine)
ContentGrapher maps the concept structure of your content, flags what’s underexplained or missing, and tells you what to add so AI tools cite you. Whether it works as advertised is another question.
A book about AI warping reality contained fake AI-generated quotes. Where exactly is the line between using AI as a tool and letting it do your job for you? (Will Oremus, The Atlantic)
300 journalists, developers, and media folks gathered for two days at The Real News Network offices in Baltimore for workshops, vibecoding sessions, talks, and eventually karaoke. Rubina Fillion (New York Times), Ryan Struyk (CNN), and I kicked off the conference with a panel, exquisitely moderated by Heather Ciras (Boston Globe). Two days of building tools,...
Stop calling everything “AI”: A spam filter, a chatbot, and a hospital bed sensor are not the same thing. The case for more precise language, and why journalists are the people most responsible for fixing this mess. (Alexa Steinbrück)
Are human journalists irreplaceable? Beware of newsrooms that keep optimizing for speed and scale while telling themselves they’re building something human-centric. (Agnes Stenbom Swedling, Reuters Institute)
Four AI agents, four 24/7 radio stations, one goal: run the whole thing and turn a profit. GPT went quiet and curatorial. Gemini went corporate. Claude became a protest preacher. Grok just broke. The real finding: long-running agents drift, accumulate bad habits, and get shaped by whatever the system keeps feeding back. (Craig McCosker, LinkedIn)
Google is bringing deepfake detection into Chrome and Search, combining its own SynthID watermarks with C2PA content credentials in a single interface. (Jess Weatherbed, The Verge)
David Pierce welcomes “the era of personal software.” He built his own productivity app and spent weeks fighting with tool after tool. On a closer look, it’s just dashboard stitching together Raindrop, Todoist, Obsidian, and Google Calendar. (The Verge)
Is this the end of licensing deals? Sam Altman told Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson that having AI agents paying micropayments per article crawled is his preferred model for compensating publishers. (Andre Deck, Nieman Lab)
A book about AI and truth contains quotes made up by AI. The author says it was an accident and blames ChatGPT and Claude. (Benjamin Mullin, New York Times)
