The new version of notification summaries for news apps in iOS 26 solves the problem of introducing errors by being as boring as possible.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Apple forcing that U2 album on everyone’s iTunes, and let it be known that, to this day, my two-year-old loves the HomePod because every time he touches it, it plays U2.

MSNBC aired several hours of Nicolle Wallace’s podcast on TV last night, thus completing the media singularity. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

FaceID not recognizing you is the new someone saying you look tired

"GPT-4o wouldn’t do that." @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com talked to ChatGPT users in parasocial relationships with a specific model about what they did when it suddenly went away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

On the internet, nobody knows you're a pelican riding a bicycle.

Incredible deep dive into one man's three-week delusional spiral caused by ChatGPT. @kashhill.bsky.social and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com analyzed the chats, totaling more than a million words, to explain why this keeps happening and demonstrate that all the major chatbots do it.

Fascinating analysis shows how conservative influencers made a mountain out of American Eagle’s molehill www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

What kind of chaotic-evil pasta does not provide a recommended cooking time?

Strati are in

I’ve read a hundred stories about the grass at Wimbledon in my lifetime, and I’ll gladly read a hundred more on.ft.com/4lFmDHm

Remembering my dad this weekend, a year after his death. www.zachseward.com/stephen-clar...

By building tools based on repeated patterns, @nytimes.com is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalistic standards of accuracy and verification, explains @zachseward.com. wan-ifra.org/2025/05/divi...

I spoke to @nikitaroy.bsky.social about the newsroom AI team at @nytimes.com and what we’ve learned after a year exploring latent space. www.newsroomrobots.com/p/how-a-five...

Live sports on Amazon Prime Video: When you can’t find the game anywhere else, it’s on Prime.

My contribution to this collection is a mood. www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...

What a world

Loved this ode to Skype, for the memories and the chance to hear that amazing ringtone, which "was created using a blend of natural sounds like wind, water, and even a human breath to make it feel both familiar and abstract." restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...

You may leave here for four days in space But when you return, it’s the same old place The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace www.theguardian.com/science/live...

For @longlead.com's Depth Perception, I spoke with the @nytimes.com's first editorial director of artificial intelligence, @zachseward.com, about how the paper is—and is not—using AI. depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/zach-sewar...

I’m quoted in this thoughtful @newyorker.com essay, “Will A.I. Save the News?” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Quartz, the business news startup I worked on for a dozen years, through the height of digital media and the sector's crash, has fired all its writers and been sold to its fifth owner. So it felt like time to reflect. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...

Not enough attention is being paid to the legality of Trump’s tariffs. If the Supreme Court rules the administration overstepped its power, which seems likely to me, then everything from the market reaction to essays about the end of globalization will seem silly in retrospect.

Come work on my team! The A.I. Initiatives team at NYT blends machine learning and journalism to explore creative tools and empower responsible reporting. We have a lot of fun and are excited to expand for the first time since I was hired last year. Remote-friendly! My DMs open for questions. #jobs

Charactertically blunt language from the FT on the US tariff formula: • crude methodology • deeply flawed • economically illiterate • divorced from the reality of trade economics on.ft.com/4jgSAoe

Is this an ad for immortality?

Back in November, I spoke at some length about how @nytimes.com is (and isn't) using AI for journalism. Here's the transcript!

New definition of AGI just dropped, and it’s a classic www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

TP-Link grew from 20% of the US internet router market to 65% in the past five years. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...