Good read on one of the most interesting characters in tech debate. As someone who used to read the housing bubble blogs like Calculated Risk back in 2005 /2006 (i.e. before the bubble burst), there's a similar vibe with @edzitron.com - and maybe he'll be proven right.

This is wrong. a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning. b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.

A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...

NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk

our latest: black borrowers are twice as likely to be rejected for a US mortgage as white borrowers - even after you account for income, location etc etc. www.ft.com/content/217c...

We've built a football game and it's free to play! Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game. 👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸

My going-away page from the NYT included a gently mocking reference to my evangelization of Scoop, the in-house CMS. I was right then and it's still true: investing in your CMS is among the best decisions a news org can make.

Thank you, @andrewvandam.bsky.social for providing much joy in the @data.ft.com Slack channel; though I'm disappointed at the exclusion of the distinguishing "r" before the censor’s dash in "A—hole." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Newsweek is hiring a UK-based “AI visual content producer”. Will be very interesting to see what the person in this role ends up doing. job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsweek/job...

We wanted to know if the money that the EU has put into rearmament is turning into production capacity — and the answer is: yes. Industry is rearming.

Trump's war on data will do lasting damage - former BLS commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social and William Beach write for @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3UNbf0x

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

New 📈✍️- we're hearing a lot about AI decimating graduate jobs. But the data paints a more complicated picture on what's behind the fall in entry-level roles With Delphine Strauss, @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & Sarah Lim on.ft.com/4f1wWmK

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Inside US’s booming immigration detention industry where increasing levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives and detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

Politicians shouldn't rage-bait chart geeks. on.ft.com/4jrlz8h

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

The lovely @neeldhanesha.com talked to me about @project-push.tk.gg for @niemanlab.org! It was great fun to chat about, and really inspired me to give the project another kick. If you're interested, sign up now, and I'll be in touch soon. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/proj...

"AI on its own is a parlor trick. Like all software, it’s useful when paired with properly structured data and someone who knows what they’re doing" @zachseward.com www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...

2025: Scrolling through the timeline of the new Supreme Pontiff and apostolic successor of St. Peter, to see if he mostly sent Good or Bad Tweets.

Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

New story from me, @eadehemingway.bsky.social, @chriscook.news and Paul Caruana Galizia. We found evidence of people buying Melania Coin from its online marketplace before it was launched. They made around 100 million dollars selling their holdings as the price rose. www.ft.com/content/f579...

There's a fake avatar of my esteemed colleague Martin Wolf trying to get people to join an investment group on social media There were at least 3 different deepfake videos and multiple Photoshopped images running over 1,700 ads across Facebook and Instagram FT www.ft.com/content/80d9...

Pretty amazing graphic to go with the @financialtimes.com article about the cost of Trump's attack on US science NIH is HUGE! www.ft.com/content/67fd...

I tried to help a reporter find a migrant who was arrested after a wrong turn found him in Canada and trying to return to the US. We could see his entrance, arrest, detention and the details of his case, including his attempts to secure a lawyer. and a subsequent removal order. But then?

Today is officially the day where intraday market charts have their time to shine in the media spotlight.

Interested in what's happening at @journalismfestival.com? I've put together a quick feed using @graze.social to follow the #IJF25 conversation with posts from speakers and attendees Feel free to pin it to your home! bsky.app/profile/andr...

Arriving in Perugia in style. #ijf25

NEW: Trump hopes that his tariffs will erode China’s surplus and allow US factories to compete. But the Chinese trade juggernaut is built on deep competitive advantages built up over decades and will not be easily dislodged Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...

TIL Derek runs a niche eval leaderboard testing how good LLMs are at extracting committee names from the disclaimer text in political fundraising emails - more notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/8/p...

Interestingly, getting rid of the people responsible for complying with public-records laws does not relieve the government of its obligation to comply with the laws.

“Canada’s ultimate retaliation for Trump’s tariffs will be to turn ordinary Americans who cross the border to shop for cheaper goods into latter-day bootleggers.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We've solved the mystery on why all those remote and uninhabited islands were targeted for tariffs by Trump - they show up in US trade data due to mislabelled shipments. eg mixing up Norfolk, Virginia or Norfolk UK with Norfolk Island! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Archive what you need, now. NOW.

This PQ from Kevin Hollinrake raises an important point. I've never understood why returning officers are outside FOI, and when I was at the BBC we relied on their goodwill (sometimes forthcoming, sometimes not) for collecting data from them.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 Come work with us at @data.ft.com — we're hiring a US data journalist in NYC or DC. #ddj job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Especially among people working on news-adjacent AI stuff, it's really common to find the "fundamental category error" of "thinking journalism is about synthesising existing texts". I've thought about this quote regularly over for the past year as I keep running into examples of this.

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

How do restaurants build up a buzz? Some of the UK's coolest restaurants were kind enough to share their insights and bookings data with me for FT Magazine 📈🍝 on.ft.com/41KF3y7 (Gift link)

The FT AI summary on Independent AI summaries: - Independent launches Google AI-powered news service called Bulletin - Bulletin to provide AI-generated summaries of articles, overseen by journalists - WeAre8 social media platform to sponsor and distribute Bulletin

Further important 🐹📈 data journalism from @louisashworth.bsky.social and cartography from @theboysmithy.ft.com about the cost of small caged mammals (scm) in the UK: www.ft.com/content/f1cb...

Could not be more poorly timed. Absurd visa restrictions should be lifted and a more fundamental financial settlement is needed. Rather than contracting, the UK should be investing in research and academia to attract top talent from the US, boost a key export sector, and drive economic growth.

If you enjoyed our Trump coin story on Friday, @chriscook.news, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and I have written an Alphaville post looking at some interesting details that didn't make it into the main news story, including how much money might have been made on exchanges. www.ft.com/content/e266...

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

Our stories often downplay the computational lift that goes into getting them. Suffice it to say "a Financial Times analysis of blockchain data" denotes some really impressive data journalism work from @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social.

With apologies to @xkcd.com (xkcd.com/2347/):

As reported, the entire staff of 538 was laid off this morning. This is a severe blow to political data journalism, and I feel for my colleagues. Readers note: As we were instructed not to publish any new content, all planned updates to polls data and averages are canceled indefinitely. Huge loss :(

Data journalism folks - if you've done great work in 2024, submit entries for the Sigmas!! I'm part of the prize committee and I can tell you we love seeing individual portfolios, data-led investigations, and submissions from all over the world... What are you waiting for??