Here’s an updated cheat sheet with 11 Substack newsletters focused on AI. The selection comprises a combo of analysis-driven work from experts, and newsletters that blend original work with ICYMI links to “AI news of the week.”
Pitching The Atlantic has never been easy. PR pros always know what trade editors care about. Not so with a highly curated publication such as The Atlantic, still driven by the boundary-free judgment of human storytellers.
Back in the late 1980s, Computerworld employed an Internet reporter. That’s right — one reporter to cover every aspect of the Internet. That’s the way it became with the AI beat.
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy
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Ars Technica recently filed this revealing piece on how the NYT uses gen AI to analyze gargantuan transcripts, ones that would overwhelm mere mortals. The
SDxCentral is doing something brave: it’s overtly using AI to generate copy and dollars, and in a real sense is gambling its future. The 12-year-old B2B edit brand is past the experimenting-with-AI stage — it’s already in the refinement stage.
BI’s publishing software knows what you’ve clicked on before and where you came from. Through Google Analytics, BI also knows how all readers react to
If you’ve ever listened to a podcast, you’ll want to spend six minutes listening to this. It’s an experimental audio file produced by a new Google tool called NotebookLM. It turns a text file or PDF into a podcast…
You may be familiar with Timothy B. Lee’s work from The Washington Post, Vox or Ars Technica — he worked at all three. Today Tim is a Substack author well into his second year of “Understanding AI,” a fast-rising analytical newsletter on the hottest topic around.
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Can you imagine not needing to be a human being to be a superstar? You may remember Max Headroom. There’s plenty of examples of technology personas, but AI is a different world altogether. Is there a tech media angle to this item? Not really, but here she is — Xania.
This is a must-read article about both Business Insider and Wired being tricked by a phony freelance reporter writing phony stories. If BI and Wired can be fooled, everybody can be fooled.
Veteran tech journalist David Strom is working with a couple of AI developers to understand exactly the nature of his writing as it has unfolded over the years. In this edition of Sound Thinking, David shares his learnings and where everything might go.
It’s been tough to keep track of SDxCentral this year, with the sale… management moves… Here’s a podcast and an article that will help you catch up.. thank you, Ben, for the assistance.
Newly merged TechTarget and Informa this month laid off 10 percent of their employees. Check out the euphemism in the 8-K: “[the] net reduction [will be] up to approximately 10% of the Company’s current global colleague base.” That just beats all, doesn’t it?
