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19 June 2026 · Newsletter

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This week there is a tight cluster of stories around how AI companies access content, what that is doing to publishers, and the economic ...

16 June 2026 · Post

AI and Hollywood Accounting

This week Harvard Business Review published an article by E. Glen Weyl and Raul Castro Fernandez, How AI Companies Can Pay Fair Rates for...

12 June 2026 · Newsletter

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A shorter update this week: seven presentations and workshops in ten days have left me genuinely tired, but they’ve also been the best ki...

5 June 2026 · Newsletter

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There are two big themes this week: what new AI agents are making possible, and the need for a more nuanced discussion of AI’s impact on ...

29 May 2026 · Newsletter

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This week’s newsletter focuses on the economics of AI becoming more visible. Sometimes that’s positive for publishers: a new tool for est...

22 May 2026 · Newsletter

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It’s been a week of jet lag, catch-up and presentations, with a workshop, a webinar for PW and my friends at Westchester Publishing Servi...

15 May 2026 · Newsletter

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Greetings from Portland, where I’m writing this on the Thursday of IBPA Publishing University—or, as my body clock is telling me, about 0...

14 May 2026 · Post

Building AI Workflows That Survive Platform Risk

AI platform volatility, pricing changes, usage limits, makes it risky to build workflows inside specific models. The smartest users are using AI as a harness, keeping data and value in their own stack. Optionality matters as much as optimisation.