Ole Reissmann

One in five UK adults now use AI tools like ChatGPT to follow the news. (Ofcom)

If “watermark” sounds too innocent, maybe that’s the point: The case for renaming hidden tracking signals baked into images, audio, and text to “spymarks”. (Brandon Thomas)

Two rules for using LLMs on your own writing: don’t use a single word the model suggests, and never let it encourage you. Spotting passive voice, buried verbs, and the 750 words you don’t need, you can safely outsource. (Thomas & Erin Ptacek)

Spotify now lets AI agents generate private audio briefings and save them directly to your library. Works with Claude Code and Codex via a CLI tool in beta.

AI taking over the whole internet with bots? “It is naive and structurally impossible.” A security expert takes Dario Amodei’s essay apart. (pop.rdi.sh)

This is why LinkedIn is about to get even worse: Rysy is an open-source AI agent that researches people, builds psychological portraits from public signals, and drafts outreach calibrated to the person and your intent.

The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption: A blank text box hides everything when the interface should reveal its own capabilities. (Miguel Acevedo)

European AI lab Desert Ant launched 18 small on-device models for audio, vision, and text. No round-trips, no tokens, no data leaving the device.

The Extinction Archive: Public doomsday statements next to whatever the company was announcing that same week. (Diletta Huyskes)

Trailer for “Artificial”, Hollywood’s retelling of the birth of ChatGPT. Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman. Ominous music by Damon Albarn, of Blur and Gorillaz, and strong “The Social Network” vibes.

Google Search auto-expands some AI Overviews, burying the actual results even further. The web is still down there somewhere. Keep scrolling. (Jay Peters, The Verge)