What I'm Reading - 6/29/25

It’s been a fantastic week in the Northwoods. After a hot and humid Sunday, the temperatures plummeted into the 60s, accompanied by rain for most of the week. It was warm enough for a kayak ride yesterday, and we got to see a mama loon with her new baby!

I also accomplished a significant amount of work on the book this week. I have finished adding context and lessons learned to every chapter, and now I need to determine the best order to organize everything and then fill in the areas where I require more detail or are missing stories. This has been such a slog, but with every milestone like this, I feel like it’s coming together more and more.

Have a great Sunday!

What I’m Reading

AI Developments

1. Oversight Board: Identify and Label AI-Created Audio Clips At-Scale

2. Anthropic: How People Use Claude for Support, Advice, and Companionship

3. Microsoft Research: Learning from other domains to advance AI evaluation and testing

Stories About Specific Countries

1. Alliance for Securing Democracy: Catch Me If EU Can: How RT and Sputnik Evade EU Content Bans

2. Financial Times: Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts

3. Bloomberg: EU’s Ribera Won’t Trade Big Tech Rules to Placate Trump

Political & Social Commentary

1. The Friday Reporter by Lisa Camooso Miller: AI’s Role in Modern Advocacy

2. TED Talk: Greg Lukianoff: Let's get real about free speech

3. AMC All the Time: Substack Did Not See That Coming

4. The Handbasket: The Onion calls out ‘cowardice’ of Congress in full-page NYT ad

5. Renee DiResta: Content Moderation Is Not Censorship

6. Chaotic Era: On Substack, liberals find their answer to Musk’s X

7. Pew Research: Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

8. Deliberative Democracy Lab: Industry-Wide Deliberative Forum Invites Public to Weigh In on the Future of AI Agents

9. The Deadline: ‘The Social Network Part II’ In Works At Sony With Aaron Sorkin Set To Write And Direct; Pic Inspired By WSJ’s ‘The Facebook Files’

10. Los Angeles Times: Cable’s civic-minded C-SPAN looks for help as streaming takes a toll

11. Poynter: The truth is still worth fighting for

12. TIME: Substack: 2025 TIME100 Most Influential Companies

13. Derek Thompson: Young People Face a Hiring Crisis. AI Is Making It Worse.

14. The New York Times: A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

Legal & Regulatory

1. The New York Times: Omnicom and Interpublic, Seeking Merger, Agree to FTC’s No-Boycott Deal

2. The Guardian: US state department told to end nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs

Career Advice

1. Pack Light Live Full with Carmen Van Kerckhove: I thought I was pulling back. But I was actually launching the slingshot.

Miscellaneous Insights & Reports

1. Big Technology: Big Technology Turns Five: Here’s What I’ve Learned

2. Behavior & Business by Runyon Podcast: Shaping Product for Scaled Access to Intelligence - Bailey Richardson, OpenAI