What I'm Reading - 6/15/25

Happy Father’s Day to all the dad’s out there - especially mine. Can’t wait to spend some time with him, my mom and the whole family at the cabin starting in a few days.

This was a tough week. I was already tired and then I flew to London for two days. It was lovely to see a few folks and speak at the Polaris Leadership Summit, but I’m also very happy to be home.

Have a great Sunday!

What I’m Reading

AI Developments

1. The New York Times: Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives

2. Financial Times: Big Four firms race to develop audits for AI products

3. The New York Times: Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’

4. ProPublica: Inside the AI Tool Used by DOGE to Review Veterans Affairs Contracts

5. Axios: ChatGPT juggernaut takes aim at Google's crown

Stories About Specific Countries

1. Google Blog: UK government harnesses Gemini to support faster planning decisions

2. Yahoo! News: Brazil's top court votes to hold social media platforms accountable for user posts

Political & Social Commentary

1. The Wall Street Journal: News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools

2. Axios: The job market is brutal for women executives

3. Axios: Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality

4. Semafor: Netflix buys Daily Beast TV pilot as it races against YouTube

5. All Tech is Human: The Trust and Safety Policy Landscape

6. The New York Times: YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules

7. AP News: Republicans and Democrats disagree on media sources they trust, survey says

8. Carnegie Endowment for National Peace: Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape

9. The Guardian: Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year

10. Pew Research Center: News Media Tracker

11. Punchbowl News: The Creator Economy

12. Axios: Mark Zuckerberg's supersized AI ambitions

13. Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove: Your job used to impress people. That era just ended.

14. Oversight Board : Why Freedom of Expression Must Be the Centerpiece of Systemic Risk Assessments

15. Sam Altman: The Gentle Singularity

16. Rolling Stone: Eric Church: 'I Enjoy the Antagonistic'

Legal & Regulatory

1. Forbes: Trump Drops A Cybersecurity Bombshell With Biden-Era Policy Reversal

Miscellaneous Insights & Reports

1. To You From Steph: How I Turned Illustration into My Full Time Job

2. The New Yorker: Taylor Swift’s Master Plan

3. Spin Class: Spin Class Case Study: So, You Want To Hang a Shingle (Part 1)

4. McKinsey: GenAI paradox: exploring AI use cases

Company Announcements

1. YouTube Blog: YouTube's 2024 impact report

2. Mattel: Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration