What I'm Reading - 5/18/25

Lots of heavy storms came through the area on Friday and Saturday. This was the scene at our favorite bar, Kentmorr, as the staff tried to keep the windows from flying off when the worst of it came through. Luckily, no one was hurt.

Saturday was brunch with friends, and we have the Indy 500 quals to watch!

Have a great Sunday.

What I’m Reading

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The agenda for TrustCon is now live! This is my favorite conference of the year and you won’t want to miss it. I’ll be doing two sessions. One on trust and safety in this political environment and another on speaking publicly about these issues. Hope to see you there.

How to Use AI

1. Columbia Journalism Review: How We’re Using AI

2. Wonder Tools: Find Your Next Great Job with AI

AI Developments

1. Duco Experts: Human-Generated Datasets for AI Safety Fine-Tuning

2. Bloomberg: OpenAI’s Simo Tasked With Keeping ChatGPT Ahead of Bot Rivals

3. Knight First Amendment Institute: AI as Normal Technology

4. Copyright Lately: Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report

5. Tech Crunch: OpenAI pledges to publish AI safety test results more often

6. Wired: No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts

Stories About Specific Countries

1. Politico: Romanian government accused of online censorship ahead of election rerun

Political & Social Commentary

1. Vanity Fair: “It’s About Keeping C-SPAN Alive”: Behind the Network’s Beef With Google

2. Pew: What Is News? How Americans decide what ‘news’ means to them – and how it fits into their lives in the digital era

3. The New Yorker: Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?

4. POLITICO: The Woman Leading the Surging MAGA Antitrust Movement

5. Semafor: PR pros have discovered how to influence the chatbots: Talk to a journalist

6. Axios: Interview with Wikipedia's Maryana Iskander: Weathering AI, political storms

7. The New York Times: How Much Do People Pay for Newsletters Like Substack? It Can Be Surprising.

8. The New York Times: Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press

9. The New Yorker: Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?

10. Higher Ground Labs: 2024 Political Tech Landscape Report

11. The Up and Up: The Gen Z divide is deepening

12. Under Embargo: The New Rules of Media Training

13. Media Confidential | Podcast on Spotify: CNN's CEO: ‘If we didn't have politicians on air who might lie, we'd struggle to fill the airwaves’

Legal & Regulatory

1. POLITICO: How Big Tech is trying to shut down California’s AI rules

2. AP News: European Union accuses TikTok of breaching digital rules with lack of transparency on ads

Company Announcements

1. OpenAI Global Affairs: Welcome to The Prompt