Do you want to have a chat with the host of your favorite podcast? Generate a trailer based on emotionally engaging scenes from a movie? Give AI your video material and get a first cut in Premiere, complete with voice-over? How about checking claims made in a video stream in real time? Crazy. That's my...
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.
“Hallucinations” are getting worse in “reasoning” models from OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek. Experts struggle to explain why. (Cade Metz, Karen Weise, New York Times)
1 in 3 employees secretly use AI at work. Some like having a ‘secret edge’ (36%), others are afraid it might cost them their job (30%), and some are like, If people find out I’m using AI, they’ll think I can’t do my job (27%), says the 2025 Technology at Work Report.
When AI is asked to give short, precise answers, it can lead to higher error rates, according to people who run an AI testing platform.
What would we build today?
What would we build today for people who need trusted, verified information, knowing nothing about newsrooms? That was Nikita Roy's question at the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen, hashtag#NAMS25. Rethinking journalism from first principles. One of the many puzzle pieces came from Helsingin Sanomat editor-in-chief Erja Yläjärvi: "Writing is not a core skill...
The New Yorker is doing a really great job right now of pushing the conversation about AI and knowledge professions in a smart, forward-thinking direction. Latest example: An article about the humanities by D. Graham Burnett.
Ezra Eemans’ keynote at the Nordic AI in Media Summit: How news organizations can adapt and compete with “unlimited” information sources. (LinkedIn)
Video: AI prompt engineering deep dive (Anthropic)
How do newsrooms tackle the challenges of generative AI? Hands-on use cases and Q&As in the EBU News Report 2025.
Florent Daudens’ appeal at Nordic AI in Media Summit: Newsrooms must “get real” and build for their fickle, platform-native audience. (LinkedIn)
GenAI in media – 90+ tools and products from around the world. (Kalle Pirhonen, Numeroiden takaa)
Data analysis challenges Google’s AI Overviews claims, suggesting 34.5% fewer clicks.
“They may feel that AI has come for them, and so their reaction (and therefore their language) is visceral and raw“, writes David Caswell about how some journalists are getting defensive and what conversation we need now. (Reuters Institute)
