What I'm Reading - 5/25/25

It’s a chill Memorial Day for me on the shore. I’m watching my friends’ four dogs and catching up on work, including some edits to the book. I planned on doing some of that on Saturday, but I needed a day to chill. Today will be the Indy 500, and just enjoying the weather, reading outside and eating a lot of crabs. I could eat these all weekend. It’s fun to get them from the pots and immediately steam them.

Going to attempt fishing too. Maybe this season I’ll finally start catching some rockfish!

Have a great rest of the weekend. No how-to newsletter tomorrow, given the holiday, but next week I’ll take you along on using AI to edit my podcast, which launches on Thursday! Don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube as we’re going full video this season.

What I’m Reading

AI Developments

1. CNBC: OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion

2. Axios: OpenAI, UAE will build massive Stargate AI center in Abu Dhabi

3. KPMG: Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence: A global study 2025

4. Forbes: Inside KPMG's Global AI Trust Study

Stories About Specific Countries

1. Latin America Risk Report: Ten questions to know who won Mexico’s judicial elections

2. POLITICO: Europe’s effort to block kids from social media gathers pace

Political & Social Commentary

1. CNBC: Elon Musk says he will spend 'a lot less' on future campaign donations

2. Time Magazine: Inside the Democrats’ Reboot

3. TechCrunch: How Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits the tech elite

4. Jose Luis Sabau: A complicated election.

5. The New York Times: How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher

6. The New York Times: Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online

7. The Washington Post: Musk was once a political force on X. Now he’s back to business.

8. Integral Ad Science: Media Quality Report: 20th Edition

9. The Wall Street Journal: Austin’s Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an End

10. Bloomberg: Anthropic CEO Amodei Steers $61 Billion AI Powerhouse

11. Business Insider: Instagram head Adam Mosseri on the 'paradigm shift' from posting in public to sharing in private

12. Morning Consult: Millennials at Midlife: Their Values, Behaviors & Spending

13. PBS: How Much Executive Power is Too Much? | Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play

14. Digiday: ChatGPT referral traffic to publishers’ sites has nearly doubled this year

15. Big Technology: 10 Takeaways From Tech’s Biggest News Week of the Year

16. National Bureau of Economic Research: The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election | NBER

Legal & Regulatory

1. Axios: Netflix picks up worldwide streaming rights for Sesame Street

2. Axios: Meta to start removing expired ads from political ad archive

3. Chamber of Progress: Toxic By Design - The FTC and FCC’s New Plans to Sabotage Content Moderation

4. Axios: Scoop: NRCC and NRSC call for FTC investigation in Google

5. Adweek: A Federal Judge Ordered OpenAI to Stop Deleting Data. Here's How That Could Impact Users' Privacy

Company Announcements

1. WIRED: Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025