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Transparency
Google ads now carry a mandatory AI label. The enforcement gap is the real story.
Google adds 'created or edited with AI' labels to ads across Search, Discover, and YouTube. Automatic for Google's own AI tools. For everyone else, it is an honor system.
2026-07-09
Identity & Privacy
The life the AI chooses to tell about you will not be yours
An AI-generated 17-slide summary of your life sounds like a neat productivity trick. The uncomfortable question is what we stop asking ourselves when a machine tells us who we are.
2026-07-07
Editorial craft
The inner critic isn't your enemy. It's a timer you forgot to set.
Self-doubt doesn't vanish. But you can manage it by putting the inner editor on a timer, lowering the stakes, and learning to write through the noise. That's the real craft.
2026-07-07
Media & AI
AI-written news saves money and loses readers. The math doesn't work.
News outlets have embraced AI to churn out vast volumes of content, but early returns point to diminishing quality, reader distrust, and a looming feedback loop where AI text pollutes the data future models will train on.
2026-07-06
Media + AI Policy
France's state-backed AI gambit for journalism: friend or filter?
France launches a national AI platform for journalists, providing tools for content generation and editorial assistance, as part of a broader state initiative to modernize the media industry, but critics warn the bureaucracies and tech giant competition could stall the project.
2026-07-06