Artificial intelligence is moving into every part of news production, from finding leads to distributing stories. But its benefits depend on strong human oversight, according to Seth C. Lewis, who writes for Nieman Lab about the book Journalism in the Age of AI, co-authored with Rodrigo Zamith and Tomás Dodds. The authors identify five areas …
Reddit is testing videos that use AI generated voices to read selected text posts and comments aloud. The feature presents a thread as a short video, with the spoken text highlighted on screen as the narration progresses. Jay Peters reports for The Verge that Reddit is manually choosing which existing posts become videos. The experiment …
Restaurants are increasingly using handwritten menus, custom embroidery and lo-fi photography to signal craft at a time when AI-generated marketing images are flooding social media. Bettina Makalintal writes for Eater that restaurants are embracing visible handmade details as a response to AI-generated visual content. The shift reflects a wider cultural reaction to synthetic images that …
Imagine pointing an AI tool at a folder of interview transcripts on your PC and asking for a structured summary. Instead of copying and pasting text into a browser window, you watch as the tool plans the needed steps, analyzes the contents, and writes a new document directly to your hard drive. This is one …
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 …
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 …
OpenAI’s AI agent Codex has grown far beyond its origins as a tool for software developers. According to two new publications from OpenAI, the system now counts more than 5 million weekly active users and is increasingly used by professionals across industries to handle the routine, time-consuming work of modern office life. OpenAI writes and …
Amazon MGM Studios has launched a new initiative to fund and produce AI-assisted TV shows and movies. The studio announced the GenAI Creators’ Fund, which provides grants and access to AI production tools to filmmakers, digital creators, and tech startups. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that three animated series have already been greenlit for Prime …
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 …
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 …