“A year ago, custom GPTs were the thing. Fast forward to today… and it almost feels vintage. But here’s the truth: many of us use custom AI agents in the newsroom, they are real and USEFUL.” (Alba Mora Roca, LinkedIn)
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You do not have to use generative ai “art” because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free (Jenn Schiffer, Live Laugh Blog)
How Hearst’s DevHub is Building AI Tools That Work for Local News (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at Work (Larry Buchanan, Francesca Paris, New York Times). Previously: 18 journalists and news executives share how they use AI
I tried ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet to actually get things done
I've been playing with ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity Comet—and I'm not sure if I'm witnessing the future of productivity or just an elaborate way to make simple tasks more complicated. The premise sounds great: tell an AI what you want, and it'll just… do it. Book your train tickets, find that obscure book, curate a...
What I Learned from Making a ‘Liquid Content’ Machine (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
Image generation, without the “AI look”: Flux.1 Krea is an open weights model with opinionated aesthetics.
Make prompt engineering great again: A growing list of tools may help you improve your generative AI prompts, but sometimes all you need is a spreadsheet. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
The Directory of Liquid Content: Sannuta Raghu made a framework to make it easier to assemble, adapt, or repurpose news stories across contexts, users, or platforms.
Rise of the Fakecast: The Uncanny Valley of AI-Generated Podcasts
Research question: Given a newsletter and three articles mentioned therein, can AI make a passable podcast fakecast? Time constraint: 60 minutes Setup: Claude 4 Opus, Gemini 2.5 Text-to-Speech Result: 14-minute podcast Is it any good? At first, it seems impressive. I like how the different sources get incorporated, with the speakers looping back to arguments...
Rename screenshots with a description automatically with Gemini–for free
Screenshots. I take lots of them. I need something I see in my browser for a presentation. I want to remember something I see on social media on my phone. So. Many. Screenshots. And then what? Google has launched a tool to access Gemini 2.5 Pro from the command line. It’s called Gemini-CLI, and it...
Tomorrow’s Publisher: An AI-powered news aggregator from HBM Advisory, promising relevant news for the media industry from trusted sources. (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
How To Use NotebookLM As A Research Tool (Steven Johnson, Medium)
