How a writer builds tools with AI but never lets it touch his prose

Craig Mod talks with Dan Shipper for Every’s YouTube channel about rebuilding his entire software stack with AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude, while drawing a hard line at using the technology to write. Mod, known for the newsletters Roden and Ridgeline and books including Kissa by Kissa, used to pay around $67,000 a year …

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Samsung deploys ChatGPT and Codex to tens of thousands of employees worldwide

Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to a large portion of its global workforce. OpenAI writes that the agreement covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all employees in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The company describes the deployment as one of its largest enterprise launches ever. Samsung plans to …

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Fake people, real money: How AI influencers are fooling millions of followers

AI-generated avatars are flooding social media feeds, promoting products and building loyal audiences, often without disclosing that they are not real people. Charlie Warzel reports for The Atlantic, drawing on an interview with New York Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu, who has investigated the rise of synthetic influencers selling supplements and other consumer products. One …

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Hobbyist trains Victorian chatbot from scratch on 28,000 public domain books

Trip Venturella, a writer and MFA graduate, has built a small language model called Mr. Chatterbox, trained entirely on Victorian-era literature from the British Library. The model draws on 28,035 books published between 1837 and 1899, totaling roughly 2.93 billion tokens of training data. Venturella used Andrej Karpathy’s nanochat framework and Claude Code, an AI …

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Your boss is now watching how much AI you use at work

As artificial intelligence becomes a standard workplace tool, companies are beginning to monitor how much it actually costs to use. Katherine Bindley reports for the Wall Street Journal that businesses are tracking employee AI consumption through a metric called tokens, the basic unit that measures computing effort behind every AI interaction. For text-based tasks, roughly …

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Amazon develops AI tools to accelerate film and television production

Amazon is developing artificial intelligence tools designed to speed up film and television production while reducing costs, even as concerns grow in Hollywood about job losses and industry transformation. Greg Bensinger reports for Reuters that Albert Cheng, a veteran entertainment executive at Amazon MGM Studio, leads a small team building AI applications for the entertainment …

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When algorithms write about love: Inside the AI romance novel factory

Romance novelist Coral Hart produces over 200 books annually using artificial intelligence, earning six figures from sales on Amazon. What once took her months now takes 45 minutes per novel. Alexandra Alter reports for The New York Times that the romance industry is rapidly adopting AI writing tools, despite significant controversy within the community. Hart, …

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