Posts and Newsletters

30 May 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 29

Maybe there will be a quiet week for AI and publishing. If so, we haven’t seen it yet. Across a range of stories this week, the clear the...

23 May 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 28

This edition covers the US House passing a tax bill with a ten-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation, OpenAI’s continued lobbying ...

16 May 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 27

I’m writing this from a very sunny Edinburgh, where I presented to the lovely Canongate team at their away day. It was great to get off c...

9 May 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 26

This week’s newsletter starts with a question that’s been quietly nagging at many of us working with generative AI: are we saving time, o...

2 May 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 25

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 copyr...

25 April 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 24

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 l...

17 April 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 23

This edition covers the headline findings of Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index Report, fresh data on the rapidly growing length of tasks LLMs ...

11 April 2025 · Newsletter

Context Window 22

This edition covers Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke’s AI-first hiring memo, a behavioural study suggesting reader preferences for human authorsh...