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Our early-adopters index examines how corporate America is deploying AIFrom The Economist: Technology stocks are having a bumper year. Despite a recent wobble, the share price of the Big Five—Alphabet, Amazon,...
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AI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 are acing everything from the bar exam to AP Biology. Here’s a list of difficult exams both AI versions have passed.From Insider: The Uniform Bar Exam While GPT-3.5, which powers ChatGPT, only scored in the 10th percentile of the bar exam, GPT-4...
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Texas’s new ‘book sexual rating’ law denouncedFrom BookBrowse: Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB900, which requires suppliers of books to school libraries,...
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What then is truth?What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been...
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Talking about AI in human terms is natural—but wrongFrom The Economist: My love’s like a red, red rose. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long....
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Niche Marketing Part OneFrom Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Niche marketing has existed since the beginning of marketing. Back in the day, though, companies didn’t call it...
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Soldiers Don’t Go MadFrom The Wall Street Journal: Two of England’s finest poets of World War I—Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen—met in a mental hospital in...
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YouTube is testing an AI-powered dub tool to translate creators’ videosFrom Mashable: YouTube is working on a potential new way to help creators reach a larger audience: AI-powered multi-language voiceover...
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Big tech bets billions on machine learning toolsFrom Tech Crunch: If it wasn’t obvious already, the competitive landscape in AI — particularly the subfield known as generative AI — is...
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Writing, Until Death Do Us PartFrom Publisher’s Weekly: It’s the first thing we’re often asked: “Did you plan this?” Crowds at our joint book signings want to know if...
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Character Type & Trope Thesaurus: LoverFrom Writers Helping Writers: In 1959, Carl Jung first popularized the idea of archetypes—”universal images that have existed since the...
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Contract law is essentiallyContract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a...
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I lost some timeI lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it. Neil Gaiman
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21 Road Trip Writing PromptsFrom The Right Practice: Road trips yield great stories. Why? Because a road trip forces you, your family, your friends, or your characters...
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April US publishing numbers tell a selective storyFrom The New Publishing Standard: In April the pot pay-out to indie authors and small presses for ebooks downloaded via the Kindle Unlimited...
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Russians join the resistance with pirate radio and TinderFrom The Economist: I n a bedsit in Vologda, a Russian city 500 miles north of Moscow, a man sat at a desk surrounded by recording...
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The main business of a lawyerThe main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. Antonin Scalia
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Things need not have happened to be trueThings need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and...
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Along with the standard computer warranty agreementAlong with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine: 1) didn’t work, 2) didn’t do what the...
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Why legal writing is so awfulFrom The Economist: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” is one of Shakespeare’s most memorable lines. You would struggle to...
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Phony ChatGPT Brief Leads to $5,000 Fine for NY LawyersFrom Bloomberg Law: The lawyers behind a court brief filled with phony case citations dreamed up by ChatGPT were fined $5,000 after a federal...
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From PG’s InboxPG just received the following email: I’d love to create an article for your website that offers tips and information for owners of...
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FTC Sues Amazon Over ‘Manipulative’ Tactics Used to Enroll Millions in PrimeFrom The Wall Street Journal: The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com Wednesday, alleging the retail giant worked for years to enroll...
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In Crime Fiction, Who Gets to Tell the Story?From The Wall Street Journal: “When we see serial killers as nebulous killing machines,” author Clémence Michallon says, “we almost give...
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The RepublicansThe Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then gets elected and proves it. P. J. O’Rourke...
