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Marco Lardelli – “A few weeks ago, stock prices for SaaS (Software as a Service) companies have dropped significantly. It seems that many people expect AI to be capable of writing such tools at very low cost soon. But these events could be only forerunners for much bigger things yet to come. What happens on …
“The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem. Skills are reusable capabilities for AI agents. Install them with a single command to enhance your agents with access to procedural knowledge. What are skills? – Skills are reusable capabilities for AI agents. They provide procedural knowledge that helps agents accomplish specific tasks more effectively. Think of them as plugins …
This site celebrates open-source culture in journalism. I’m Scott Klein, publisher advocate at Newspack and co-host of the Data Journalism Podcast. For more than 25 years I’ve worked at the intersection of journalism and technology, including a long stint at ProPublica where I helped build the data and interactive teams. Earlier this year, Ben Welsh …
itsnicethat: “Once a mainstay of social life in Britain, the branded matchbook no longer accompanies a restaurant bill or sits on a pub’s bar. This new book presents a vast collection of these miniature windows into the graphic sensibilities of a former era. As wild as it might sound to anyone born within the last …
“For the first time, journalists and researchers have a searchable directory of over 1,500 of the world’s knowledge repositories. The new publication is from Newsjunkie.net, the data-journalism resource known for its “Who’s Behind the News” reporting. Guide to Public Archives II, a fully revised and expanded directory of the world’s artifact and document repositories, is …
Shubham Bose: “If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time. I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. …
The past year marked another challenging one for democracy and internet freedom. A notable trend was the increasing willingness of authoritarian governments to damage their own economies and the livelihoods of citizens by implementing total internet shutdowns. Most notable, however, was the increasing threat to internet freedom in Western democracies by-and-large considered “free.” From age …
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 Executive Summary – Democracy in the World 2025 – Democracy is back to 1978 levels for the average global citizen. The gains of the “third wave of democratization”, starting 1974 in Portugal, are almost eradicated. The level of democracy for the average citizen in Western Europe and North America …
MIT Technology Review: “The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings; applications include analyzing targets in Iran. But allowing models to train …
April 2, 2026 Update – Washington Post: Voice of America’s effort to bring back staffers grinds to a halt. A three-judge circuit court panel stayed a decision that would have allowed employees to resume work at the global broadcaster after a year of waiting. Washington Post [no paywall]: “Voice of America employees have spent a …
“From inside a frontier AI lab, we confront the most significant challenges about how powerful AI will impact the world around us.. The Anthropic Institute exists to understand and shape the consequences of powerful AI systems. We focus on the urgent questions that will determine whether these systems deliver the radical upsides that we believe …
MakeUseOf: “I’ll be honest: I’m not thrilled about the fact that anything I’ve ever written — especially the whip-smart comments on questionable Subreddits — has probably been used to train LLMs. There’s little I can do to change that. Copyright laws are tipped in favor of AI companies because, so far, the onus is on …
