There’s a lot to unpack this week, including a couple of quite contrarian views on the environmental impact of AI and on the use of copyrighted material as training data. But I’m starting with something that’s both exciting and very practical…

This edition covers a correction to last week’s link on LLM task length, the new native AI text-analysis formulas in Google Sheets, the latest Adobe Firefly upgrades, eye-catching data on AI-generated music on Deezer and rising submissions to publishers, Wikipedia’s training-optimised Kaggle dataset, an Anthropic paper on how Claude expresses values, Ethan Mollick on “Jagged AGI”, Tom Goodwin’s AI-flavoured update to the Eisenhower Matrix, Trump’s executive order on AI in schools, the new CLA/PLS/ALCS Generative AI Licence, Ahrefs research on AI overviews suppressing click-through, and a contrasting Washington Post deal and Ziff Davis lawsuit involving OpenAI.

This edition covers the headline findings of Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index Report, fresh data on the rapidly growing length of tasks LLMs can perform, OpenAI’s o3 model release, the importance of human leadership in AI initiatives, a Bloomberg investigation into Inkitt’s AI-powered romance factory, and an embarrassing case of an AI-generated passage slipping through Springer Nature’s editorial process.

This edition covers Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke’s AI-first hiring memo, a behavioural study suggesting reader preferences for human authorship are weaker than stated, an argument that AI may improve content quality by writing for the model as well as the reader, Anthropic’s launch of Claude for Education with Socratic prompting, a salutary LSE blog on “efficient inefficiency”, OpenAI’s persistent-memory upgrade to ChatGPT and the Temporary Chat workaround, Meta’s Llama 4 multimodal models, and a court ruling allowing the New York Times’s copyright case against OpenAI to proceed.

This edition covers Amazon’s new Nova Act browser-agent model, Google’s Gemini 2.5 reasoning model, Rachel Coldicutt’s responsible-AI dos and don’ts, fresh CLA research showing 82% of UK professionals upload third-party content into AI prompts, FT analysis on the limited employment impact of AI so far, Tyler Cowen on AI in his writing workflow, a Nature piece on AI and academic peer review, and new data points on AI scraping bots overwhelming publisher infrastructure.

This edition covers OpenAI’s inline image generation in 4o and the Studio Ghibli controversy that followed, a US court’s refusal to halt Anthropic’s training on song lyrics and what that means for publisher litigation strategy, a new world map of AI copyright lawsuits, MIT Tech Review on the dangers of total autonomy for AI agents, OUP’s AI Discovery Assistant with Silverchair, the worsening impact of AI crawlers on open access infrastructure and Cloudflare’s response, and a BookBrunch op-ed on AI in bookselling.

This edition covers Meta’s attempt to block Sarah Wynn Williams’s memoir Careless People and The Atlantic’s forensic exposé of Meta’s training data, the billion-download milestone for Llama, attitudes to AI among Ibero-American publishers from a trip to Madrid’s Parix IA conference, the Thaler v. Perlmutter appellate ruling reaffirming that copyright requires human authorship, Y Combinator’s report on AI-generated startup code, Baidu’s aggressively priced Ernie models, Anthropic adding web search to Claude, OpenAI’s updated voice models, Zoom’s new AI agents, and details of a forthcoming Publishing Scotland webinar.

This edition covers OpenAI’s “freedom-focused” pitch to the Trump administration on AI policy, an FOI revealing Peter Kyle’s use of ChatGPT for policy advice, Wiley’s gold-standard author AI guidelines, Adam Hyde’s open-source EasyJournal and the wider rise of AI-assisted “vibe coding”, time spent with Ukrainian publishers and the threat of AI training on Russian propaganda, an HBR piece on responsible AI, Sakana’s AI-generated paper passing peer review, OpenAI’s new Responses API for building agents, and AI’s growing role in commissioning decisions across creative industries.