In this issue: Defiant language models are reading our emails. The death of vibecoding. Books made out of thin tokens. And the radical change in audience expectations with The Telegraph’s Michelle Brister.
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Google’s Veo 3 can spit out videos that are seconds long and look deceptively real like US television, at least at first glance. (Ethan Mollick, LinkedIn)
The Chicago Sun-Times published summer book recommendations – written by AI. A third of the titles don’t actually exist. NPR’s Elizabeth Blair has the full story on what happened.
Okay, this is slick PR, but: Anthropic got Rick Rubin to do some visual code experiments based on Lao Tzu for the Claude release. Translation: with Claude access, you can vibe-code pretty animations.
If only it were just a tool – but instead Claude 4 sometimes shows a stubborn mind of its own, complete with blackmail and snitching. Simon Willison read through the official documentation.
ChatGPT stifles idea diversity in brainstorming, a recent study says. Heads up though: researchers were looking at ChatGPT 3.5, which dropped in November 2022 and has since been discontinued.
The Pulitzer Prize is once again highlighting investigations that use AI – but we’re talking “regular” AI here, not ChatGPT. NiemanLab has the details.
Everything’s happening at once
Anthropic is releasing Claude 4, Karen Hao’s book “Empire of AI” is out, and Google’s showing off the future of search at I/O.Claude 4? Are you kidding?"I understand the surprise! Yes, this is Claude Sonnet 4 from the Claude 4 model family." My first attempts to send Claude 4 on research tasks with extended reasoning...
Everything’s happening at once: Google’s showing off the future of search at I/O, Karen Hao’s book “Empire of AI” is out, and Anthropic is releasing Claude 4.
Google’s new AI chatbot mimics Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, prompting questions about the future of information discovery. (Tripp Mickle, New York Times)
Create soulless and interchangeable content at the push of a button? There Is An AI For That: TrendlyAI.
Dan Shipper of Every startup uses AI to augment, not replace, writers – a contrarian take amidst AI-fueled media disruption. (Benjamin Mullin, New York Times)
