Chinese e‑commerce giant Alibaba has released new Qwen models for generating and cloning voices earlier this year. Which means: With only a couple of seconds of recorded material, we can generate a cloned voice recording. On a four year old MacBook Air. Instantly. At no cost. This used to be the domain of Elevenlabs. The...
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tropes.md is a one-file blacklist of AI writing tells for your system prompt.
The vibe is Palantir cosplay: World Monitor by Elie Habib is a real-time “situational awareness” dashboard with threat feeds, geopolitical maps, and a three-stage AI classification pipeline. He calls it a “weekend hack.”
Which AI to use: Free users don’t get the good AI, and even if you pay, you have to pick thinking mode. Once you’ve done that, the model matters less than the harness. For newsrooms: curated archive retrieval, a system prompt encoding editorial voice, CMS integration, verification. (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)
You can just build things
My website was put together with a text editor and a "better done than perfect" attitude. I added new things here and there. Fiddled around. Over time, it got messy. And I never built a dark mode, because I feared the time it would take to rebuild everything. But you're looking at a much improved...
Bring AI into your CMS with a Chrome plugin
This gets a little technical, but with AI's help it's straightforward. Here's how it works: a Chrome plugin grabs content from the CMS text fields, sends it to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude with various preset prompts, and displays the response right in the browser. For example: checking against your house style. A plausibility check. Suggestions...
Model of the moment
If you aren’t using Qwen3-Max-Thinking already, you’re … just like me. As much as I try to stay current, I also have to get real work done. So for me it’s the latest Claude Opus and the latest Gemini, for both writing and coding. I bounce between the two: most days I start with Opus,...
The name says “Code,” but you don’t need to write any: Florent Daudens walks journalists through setting up Claude Code as a persistent reporting assistant that can read your files, track your story, and stop asking you to re-upload that PDF for the fifth time.
Ask AI “what’s the biggest pay gap?” and it’ll miss negative numbers. Ask for “the company” with the top score and it’ll ignore ties. Paul Bradshaw tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot for data analysis – and catalogues where tools trip up. (Medium)
Vibe coding starter guide for newsrooms (Joe Amditis, Center for Cooperative Media)
Three examples of AI translation at Chicago’s La Voz, The Economist, and BBC News Polska. What unfortunately isn’t mentioned: What happens to quotes that need to be translated back into their original language. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
Palantir is providing Fox News with three AI tools: “Topic Radar” generates custom briefings for reporters, “Text Editor” reviews articles for style and readability, and “Article Insights tracks performance and suggests optimizations. (Sara Fischer, Axios)
The Top Challenges of Using LLMs for Content Moderation: While it’s from a corporate blog of a vendor of AI-enabled moderation, I found it to be useful, particularly the common-pitfalls-section. (Alice Hunsberger, Musubi)
Our AI Narration Plugin is yours to use: If you’re running a newsroom on WordPress, you can now spin up AI-generated audio versions of your articles without having to cobble together some Frankenstein workflow involving three different APIs and a prayer. (Rest of World)
