Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety?

A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach

platformer.news

Read, Write, Act: Inside the MCP server boom

A mapping of 2,874 MCP servers shows concentration risks and a surge in agentic browsing — with implications for APIs, local MCPs, and market design.

open.substack.com

AI-First Companies

AI-First means massive automation to repetitive tasks, rapid iteration over perfection, ubiquitous AI integration across workflows, and workforce transformation requiring AI literacy.

open.substack.com

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

wired.com

Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here's Why. - The Scholarly Kitchen

A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

The Four Archetypes of Platform Organizations - Boundaryless

Explore how successful organizations balance portfolio and platform strategies across 4 distinct archetypes. Learn to optimize decoupling and coherence for sustainable growth.

boundaryless.io

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battl...

wired.com

On the Cultural Fatigue around AI

Compression culture, parental panic, and the remaining trust gap

medium.com

Are We Losing Our Minds?

A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

the-geyser.com

Education at a Glance 2025

Education at a Glance is the authoritative source of information on the state of education worldwide. It offers comprehensive data on the structure, financing, and performance of education systems acr...

oecd.org

Why retention is so hard for new tech products

And how to apply these lessons to the current gen of AI apps

open.substack.com

Information literacy and chatbots as search

By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

buttondown.com

John Battelle's Search Blog The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone.

I’ve written a lot about AI lately, and I’ll admit, most of it is critical. Plenty of you have asked me why I’m so down on the sector. The crux of it is this: I think we’re …

battellemedia.com

OpenAI’s future, foretold?

Two new charts paint two very different scenarios

open.substack.com

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

arstechnica.com

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All

Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.

wired.com

Review | Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this?

For better or worse, Google’s Gemini chatbot just got a “Nano Banana” AI image editing boost.

washingtonpost.com

Lonely Fans | No Mercy / No Malice

Loneliness is lucrative. Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive owner of OnlyFans, received a $700 million windfall last year, while the platform’s top tier of content creators — mostly women — earn millions...

profgalloway.com

Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence

The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.

publishersweekly.com

Introduction and summary: Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward

A discussion of libraries and library studies in the context of library education. It is the introduction to, and summary of, my response to the LIS Forward position paper.

buff.ly

The AI-Powered Mediocrity Line

The demand for excellent professionals is rising, and it will likely be among the major factors of change in the job market and in how people plan their lives in the upcoming years | Edition #231

luizasnewsletter.com

Flexible training programmes for upskilling

In her Speakers’ Corner column, Elif Bahar explores solutions to overcome the barriers that prevent participation in upskilling programmes.

elmmagazine.eu

The melancholy of history rhyming

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

baldurbjarnason.com

AI is like a lunch – there’s no such thing as a free one

When the tech giants monetise LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini, will our thoughts be the currency?

observer.co.uk

Ransomware has evolved – so must our defences - Information Age

Ransomware threats are advancing. Jamie Moles goes into what a triple extortion threat is and how to protect your organisation against them

information-age.com

« Les élèves méritent mieux que l’interdiction de leur portable au collège »

L’interdiction des smartphones au collège, déjà prévue par la loi depuis 2018, est mise en place à partir de ce 1er septembre. Elle ne représente pas une solution pérenne, selon la chercheuse Anne Cor...

la-croix.com