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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...
Posts and Newsletters
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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.
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It was a quieter week for product releases, but there were significant legal, policy and research developments. I am in Portland, Oregon ...
How AI Affects Publishing Depends on Existing Incentives
New Australian research frames AI training on creative work as a market failure. But economic analysis needs segmentation: AI may cause underproduction in literary publishing while driving overproduction in academic sectors where volume is rewarded.