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Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety? A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach

Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety? By Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social / Plataformer www.platformer.news/ftc-chatbots...

Read, Write, Act: Inside the MCP server boom A mapping of 2,874 MCP servers shows concentration risks and a surge in agentic browsing — with implications for APIs, local MCPs, and market design.

Read, Write, Act: Inside the MCP server boom, by Asimov’s Addendum, Sruly Rosenblat, Ilan Strauss, Isobel Moure and Tim O’Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social / Asimov’s Addendum - Substack open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...

AI-First Companies AI-First means massive automation to repetitive tasks, rapid iteration over perfection, ubiquitous AI integration across workflows, and workforce transformation requiring AI literacy.

AI-First Companies, by Jakob Nielsen @jakobnielsen.bsky.social / Jakob Nielsen on UX - Substack open.substack.com/pub/jakobnie...

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’ Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

Microsoft’s AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’, by Will Knight @willknight.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/micros...

Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here's Why. - The Scholarly Kitchen A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.

I've got a new piece up in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today, explaining my deep pessimism about the future of the subscribe-to-open OA publishing model. Comments are coming in thick and fast and the discussion has been really good so far, I think.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/18/s...

The Four Archetypes of Platform Organizations - Boundaryless Explore how successful organizations balance portfolio and platform strategies across 4 distinct archetypes. Learn to optimize decoupling and coherence for sustainable growth.

The Four Archetypes of Platform Organizations, by Simone Cicero /The Rules of the Platform Game - Boundaryless www.boundaryless.io/blog/four-ar...

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battl...

Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. Interview by Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...

On the Cultural Fatigue around AI Compression culture, parental panic, and the remaining trust gap

On the Cultural Fatigue around AI. By Richard Yao / IPG Media Lab - Medium medium.com/ipg-media-la...

Are We Losing Our Minds? A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia, by Kent Anderson / The Geyser www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...

Education at a Glance 2025 Education at a Glance is the authoritative source of information on the state of education worldwide. It offers comprehensive data on the structure, financing, and performance of education systems acr...

Education at a Glance 2025 (OCDE Report) / @oecdstatistics.bsky.social www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

The Unwritten Rules of Managing a Research Lab to Cultivate Innovation. Early lessons in research managment at Xerox PARC have stood the test of time.
By Jeremy Roschelle @jeremyr.blog / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...

Why retention is so hard for new tech products And how to apply these lessons to the current gen of AI apps

Why retention is so hard for new tech products, by Andrew Chen @andrewchen.bsky.social / @andrewchen - Substack open.substack.com/pub/andrewch...

Information literacy and chatbots as search By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

Information literacy and chatbots as search, by Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social / Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

John Battelle's Search Blog The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone. I’ve written a lot about AI lately, and I’ll admit, most of it is critical. Plenty of you have asked me why I’m so down on the sector. The crux of it is this: I think we’re …

The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone, by John Battelle @battellemedia.com / Searchblog battellemedia.com/archives/202...

OpenAI’s future, foretold? Two new charts paint two very different scenarios

OpenAI’s future, foretold? Two new charts paint two very different scenarios, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Global voices, one network: Expanding the Web of Science platform with Research Commons – Plus More ATG News, by Tom Gilson / @chashub.bsky.social www.charleston-hub.com/2025/09/glob...

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5, by Ashley Belanger @ashleybelanger.bsky.social / @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.

The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All, By Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-do...

Spotting Scams Based on Fake Profiles, by Alex Tray @alextray.bsky.social / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/spo...

Review | Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this? For better or worse, Google’s Gemini chatbot just got a “Nano Banana” AI image editing boost.

Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this? By Chris Velazco @velazco.bsky.social / @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Lonely Fans | No Mercy / No Malice Loneliness is lucrative. Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive owner of OnlyFans, received a $700 million windfall last year, while the platform’s top tier of content creators — mostly women — earn millions...

Lonely Fans, by Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com | No Mercy / No Malice www.profgalloway.com/lonely-fans/

Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.

Bookstores Contend with National Guard Presence in Washington, D.C. By Claire Kirch, with reporting by Cathy Lynn Grossman @clgrossman.bsky.social / @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Introduction and summary: Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward A discussion of libraries and library studies in the context of library education. It is the introduction to, and summary of, my response to the LIS Forward position paper.

Long title :-) Summary of my response to LIS Forward > Introduction and summary: Long title :-) Summary of my remarks about LIS Forward > Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward

The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

The AI-Powered Mediocrity Line The demand for excellent professionals is rising, and it will likely be among the major factors of change in the job market and in how people plan their lives in the upcoming years | Edition #231

The AI-Powered Mediocrity Line, by Luiza Jarovsky @luizajarovsky.bsky.social / Luiza’s Newsletter- Substack www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Flexible training programmes for upskilling In her Speakers’ Corner column, Elif Bahar explores solutions to overcome the barriers that prevent participation in upskilling programmes.

Elif Bahar, OECD: “Upskilling demands flexibility, funding and motivation”. / European Lifelong
Learning Magazine elmmagazine.eu/elif-bahar-o...

The melancholy of history rhyming Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

The melancholy of history rhyming, by Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com / Out of the Software Crisis www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-mel...

AI is like a lunch – there’s no such thing as a free one When the tech giants monetise LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini, will our thoughts be the currency?

AI is like a lunch – there’s no such thing as a free one, by John Naughton @jjn1.bsky.social / The Observer observer.co.uk/news/science...

Ransomware has evolved – so must our defences - Information Age Ransomware threats are advancing. Jamie Moles goes into what a triple extortion threat is and how to protect your organisation against them

Ransomware has evolved – so must our defences, by Jamie Moles / Information Age www.information-age.com/ransomware-h...

« Les élèves méritent mieux que l’interdiction de leur portable au collège » L’interdiction des smartphones au collège, déjà prévue par la loi depuis 2018, est mise en place à partir de ce 1er septembre. Elle ne représente pas une solution pérenne, selon la chercheuse Anne Cor...

💥 A propos de l'interdiction du téléphone et du dispositif "portable en pause" dans les établissements scolaires. Merci à La Croix pour m'avoir accordé la parole 🪶

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