What I'm Reading - 7/6/25

It was a wonderful Fourth of July up here in the Northwoods. The days have been perfect, warm enough to be in the lake and cooler at night—lots of time for kayaking, lounging in the lake, jeep rides, and fireworks.

Have a great Sunday!

What I’m Reading

AI Developments

1. The New York Times: Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default

2. Reuters: Grammarly to acquire email startup Superhuman in AI platform push

Stories About Specific Countries

1. TechPolicy.Press: EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorship Claims and Trade Tensions

2. POLITICO: Von der Leyen to face Parliament confidence vote next Thursday

Political & Social Commentary

1. The Aspen Institute on YouTube: How TikTok Changed The Vote

2. WIRED: Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out

3. CNN: How TikTok Changed The Vote

4. POLITICO: Dead members of Congress can’t stop posting

5. Bloomberg: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Effort, More Hires

6. Reporters' Lab: 2025 census: Fact-checkers persevere as politicians, platforms turn up heat

7. Financial Times Podcast: Transcript: Trump’s Tech Bros — Is ‘Maga Mark’ the real Mark Zuckerberg?

8. Bloomberg: Meta’s Threads Offers Changes In Effort to Regain Relevancy

9. Forbes: MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Charges Toward Its 20th Year: ‘We Want To Break New Ground’

10. The Substack Post: Beyond Cannes

11. Axios: AI's great brain-rot experiment

12. Aspen Digital: No Turning Back: AI’s Growing Role in News

13. The New York Times: How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

Legal & Regulatory

1. Michael L. Bąk | Substack: (margin*notes) ^squared

2. AP News: Tech industry group sues Arkansas over new social media laws

3. Axios: Supreme Court will take up Republican challenge to campaign finance restrictions

4. Semafor: Digital content moderation law figures as part of US-EU trade talks