This is such a fun idea to put together I spent a few hours at the weekend replicating it on @cloudflare.social An open source 'Manosphere Report' you can deploy to your own newsroom today with a single command, track any podcast & generate summaries. Link & demo below ⤵️

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · 6mo ago

Built in-house and known internally as the “Manosphere Report,” the @nytimes.com tool uses LLMs to transcribe and summarize new episodes of dozens of podcasts. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

The New York Times is using LLMs to transcribe and summarize episodes of more than 80 podcasts that are part of the "manosphere." The resulting email digest lands in journalists' inboxes every morning. I spoke with @zachseward.com about the tool for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”

The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

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The new version of notification summaries for news apps in iOS 26 solves the problem of introducing errors by being as boring as possible.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Apple forcing that U2 album on everyone’s iTunes, and let it be known that, to this day, my two-year-old loves the HomePod because every time he touches it, it plays U2.

MSNBC aired several hours of Nicolle Wallace’s podcast on TV last night, thus completing the media singularity. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Nicolle Wallace's New Podcast Just Became MSNBC's Latest TV Show

MSNBC is filling certain weekend and holiday slots with Nicolle Wallace's new "The Best People" podcast, breaking old rules about what airs on TV

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FaceID not recognizing you is the new someone saying you look tired

"GPT-4o wouldn’t do that." @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com talked to ChatGPT users in parasocial relationships with a specific model about what they did when it suddenly went away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

The Chatbot Updated. Users Lost a Friend.

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On the internet, nobody knows you're a pelican riding a bicycle.

Incredible deep dive into one man's three-week delusional spiral caused by ChatGPT. @kashhill.bsky.social and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com analyzed the chats, totaling more than a million words, to explain why this keeps happening and demonstrate that all the major chatbots do it.

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

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Fascinating analysis shows how conservative influencers made a mountain out of American Eagle’s molehill www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

Right-Wing Influence Shaped the Sydney Sweeney Ad Debate - The New York Times

Right-wing commentators suggested there was widespread criticism of Ms. Sweeney over her new ad campaign. There wasn’t, at least at first.

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What kind of chaotic-evil pasta does not provide a recommended cooking time?

Strati are in

I’ve read a hundred stories about the grass at Wimbledon in my lifetime, and I’ll gladly read a hundred more on.ft.com/4lFmDHm

Remembering my dad this weekend, a year after his death. www.zachseward.com/stephen-clar...

Stephen Clark Seward

My eulogy for Dad

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By building tools based on repeated patterns, @nytimes.com is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalistic standards of accuracy and verification, explains @zachseward.com. wan-ifra.org/2025/05/divi...

Divining data: How AI invigorates The New York Times' approach to investigative reporting

2025-05-30. By building tools based on repeated patterns, The New York Times is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalisti...

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I spoke to @nikitaroy.bsky.social about the newsroom AI team at @nytimes.com and what we’ve learned after a year exploring latent space. www.newsroomrobots.com/p/how-a-five...

How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward

Plus: Join us at New York University for a Live Podcast Recording, June 3!

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Live sports on Amazon Prime Video: When you can’t find the game anywhere else, it’s on Prime.

My contribution to this collection is a mood. www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...

What a world

Loved this ode to Skype, for the memories and the chance to hear that amazing ringtone, which "was created using a blend of natural sounds like wind, water, and even a human breath to make it feel both familiar and abstract." restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...

When the world connected on Skype

On the eve of its demise, Rest of World readers remember how Skype changed their world.

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You may leave here for four days in space But when you return, it’s the same old place The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace www.theguardian.com/science/live...

Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and four others arrive back on Earth after space flight – live | Blue Origin | The Guardian

The Amazon founder’s Blue Origin lands minutes after liftoff at 9.30am ET

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I’m quoted in this thoughtful @newyorker.com essay, “Will A.I. Save the News?” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Quartz, the business news startup I worked on for a dozen years, through the height of digital media and the sector's crash, has fired all its writers and been sold to its fifth owner. So it felt like time to reflect. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...

What was Quartz?

2012–2025

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Not enough attention is being paid to the legality of Trump’s tariffs. If the Supreme Court rules the administration overstepped its power, which seems likely to me, then everything from the market reaction to essays about the end of globalization will seem silly in retrospect.

Come work on my team! The A.I. Initiatives team at NYT blends machine learning and journalism to explore creative tools and empower responsible reporting. We have a lot of fun and are excited to expand for the first time since I was hired last year. Remote-friendly! My DMs open for questions. #jobs

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, A.I. Initiatives

New York, NY; Remote - USA

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Charactertically blunt language from the FT on the US tariff formula: • crude methodology • deeply flawed • economically illiterate • divorced from the reality of trade economics on.ft.com/4jgSAoe

Donald Trump baffles economists with tariff formula

Calculation deeply flawed economically and will fail in stated aim of ‘driving bilateral trade deficits to zero’, say analysts

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Is this an ad for immortality?

Back in November, I spoke at some length about how @nytimes.com is (and isn't) using AI for journalism. Here's the transcript!

My panel at Web Summit about how The Times newsroom uses AI

Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.

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