This edition covers the UK government’s consultation on copyright and AI, an Amazon job listing that hints at deeper AI use inside the Kindle reading experience, NotebookLM’s enterprise update, Apple Intelligence’s BBC misattribution, a US AI litigation tracker, and what the Betty Crocker Effect can teach us about generative AI.

This edition rounds up a packed week of tech news—OpenAI’s Sora rollout, Google’s Gemini 2 and Deep Research, and Reddit’s new AI search tool—alongside new public-domain training datasets, AI deal trackers, the impact of AI clauses in publishing contracts, and a four-part model of how organisations use AI.

This edition examines the ALCS report on authors and AI training, Pleias’s openly-licensed and energy-efficient LLMs, new content deals from OpenAI/Future Plc and Bertelsmann/ElevenLabs, the risks of AI-generated podcasts, and practical ideas for working creatively with AI.

This edition looks at Steven Johnson’s Long Context project, the Activate 2025 outlook on AI search and disintermediation risks for publishers, the rise of AI shopping assistants like Amazon Rufus, and tech news including Amazon’s expanded Anthropic investment and the new Model Context Protocol standard.

This edition unpacks the HarperCollins–Microsoft AI licensing deal and its wider implications for trade publishing, OpenAI’s o1 models reaching the API, Gemini’s new memory feature, Ben Affleck on AI and craft, research on AI writing in Substack newsletters, and US dates for the IPG AI training course.

This edition covers Google’s new AI video tool for Workspace customers, a US federal ruling dismissing a copyright suit against OpenAI, fresh data on AI adoption in publishing jobs, AI’s role in research integrity and creative writing, and award news for the IPG AI training programme.

This edition covers the dispute over an AI-generated cover for Jodi Picoult’s new book, Anthropic’s new CSV analysis feature in Claude, the launch of ChatGPT Search, and how AI-driven search could reshape publishers’ relationships with the open web.