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...
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How do newsrooms tackle the challenges of generative AI? Hands-on use cases and Q&As in the EBU News Report 2025.
Data analysis challenges Google’s AI Overviews claims, suggesting 34.5% fewer clicks.
AI is a Cult, They Want to Create God and Kill Journalism
That's the narrative. It goes like this: There's a group of powerful people in Silicon Valley who believe in effective altruism, want to live forever, and might be susceptible to fascism. They're not only building AI but believe in a super-intelligence that will have no bias and all the answers. So why not get rid...
The doomsday fantasy of effective altruists: The “AI in 2027” report imagines wild scenarios. Kevin Roose is less impressed. (New York Times)
We see clunky AI applications and resist the hype – this article makes the argument that we’re not caring enough about it. (Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker)
Anthropic looks under the hood of Claude 3.5 Haiku, using circuit tracing to see how it works across different kinds of tasks.
AI search has had little impact on referral traffic to date, based on Comscore’s desktop user data in the U.S. (Nick Hagar, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
AI Search Has A Citation Problem. We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. (Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar, Columbia Journalism Review)
“Liberal AI Grok Attacks Trump, Turns on Creator Musk in Shocking Betrayal”
What happens when you cram all the world's knowledge, or at least what you can find, into a machine? The machine gets a sense of what's considered normal. I know, loaded term. Let's call it a baseline. This even applies to Elon Musk's supposed super AI, Grok 3. "Should a U.S. president say 'He who...
What does the future of media look like with artificial intelligence?
For DER SPIEGEL's birthday, I was asked about my perspective on the future. I wrote 30 observations. The article is in German, but here are some of them abbreviated: The year is 2022. A Google developer goes public. His company is developing a chatbot that he believes has become conscious. At Google, they laugh at...
