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.
Happy Friday. I’m catching up after a week on the road and there is a lot to process. This week my reading and thinking clustered around ...
Why GPT-5.5's prompting advice echoes 19th-century military doctrine: the shift from scripting tasks to creating conditions for delegated work to succeed.
Reflections from the ECPA Leadership Summit on AI's impact on publishing. Bob Hutchins' proxy failure framework - how AI undermines trust in writing as a signal of thought and effort - connects to George Akerlof's market for lemons: when quality signals break down, adverse selection can collapse markets. The strategic question for publishers is whether they can credibly signal editorial judgement in ways that are costly for low-quality producers to fake.
It’s been a big couple of weeks for AI image generation and design tools: with major updates from Canva, Google and Anthropic, users are ...
Three patterns from a week of conversations about how people are actually using AI: capability levelling up, a Gen X sweet spot, and a fundamental shift in the viability of solo and small firms.
A slightly shorter newsletter than last time as it’s been a particularly busy week: several days of travel, and submitting the manuscript...
How the 2026 revision to Standard Industrial Classification codes affect UK book and journal publishing.