If you’re trying to get anything done right now, good luck. Your emails are about to be ghosted by a wall of auto-replies. It’s summer in Europe, which means everyone’s either on a beach or aggressively pretending to read a book by the pool.
Can you blame them? The world’s a mess—wars, fascism making a comeback, and the Digital News Report dropping like it’s the new season of Black Mirror. While half your colleagues are slathering on sunscreen, there’s still some of us either chained to our computers or, you know, actually curious about AI.
So, here’s my idea for the next few weeks: Welcome to the Summer of AI. Yes, I’m making it a thing. No, you don’t get a tote bag. I’ll be sharing resources, I might have thoughts, and if you’re feeling brave, you can tag along.
- Who’s who in the German-speaking LinkedIn universe when it comes to AI and journalism?
- The GenZ Reality Check: Media innovator Sara Inkeri Vardar
- The AI Browser Betting on a Future Beyond Chrome and Siri
- 10 Facts Every Journalist (and Everyone Else) Should Know About AI
- Think electricity, not nuclear weapons: Florent Daudens from Hugging Face
- Getting Started: Essential AI and Journalism Resources for 2025
- Journalism’s AI Challenge Isn’t Tech—It’s Purpose: Bonnier’s Freja Kalderén
- Rename screenshots with a description automatically with Gemini–for free
- Given a newsletter and three articles mentioned therein, can AI make a passable
podcastfakecast? - AI’s Next Land Grab: Your Browser
- The New ABC of AI
If you don’t want to miss it, you could subscribe to THEFUTURE, my newsletter, where I’ll be sharing weekly updates. Or don’t. But then you’ll have to pretend you already knew about all this at the next team meeting. Your call.
