Looking at the semiotics of Apple's new CEO announcement. Presumably the choice of clothing here denotes 'minimum disruption imaginable'...? www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive offi...

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Lots of great charts in the new 2026 Stanford AI Index. But this one stood out to me: "AI adoption is spreading at historic speed". hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

The Economist Is Putting Names (and Faces) to Its Magazine

We live in a personality-led media world now, even The Economist can't fight it any longer (and tbh gave up many years ago)...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

Why am I only discovering Stendhal now? He’s fantastic.

WPP Explores Sale Of PR Arm, Report Says The Times reports Goldman Sachs is evaluating options for Burson as part of CEO Cindy Rose’s restructuring plan.

WPP Explores Sale Of PR Arm, Report Says

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

This is actually an interesting and thoughtful piece from Anthropic, and a sensible approach to what sounds like a bit of a game changing frontier model.

www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’

Yikes… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying Marketing firms are going all in on AI search.

When ads came to ChatGPT, users were mad — those who had been using it as an editor or therapist suddenly saw ChatGPT as vulnerable to manipulation by brands and marketers.

The reality is that it was happening the whole time. I wrote about the new SEO gold rush:

www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Trump’s new post is truly astounding. Beyond parody. Beyond belief. Can’t wait to read the history books once this man is gone.

Great piece on BuzzFeed and the state of journalism 👇🏼

When you hear "but no one uses AI" it's worth bearing in mind that's...extremely not correct. It has reached mass adoption and use way quicker than other online technologies did, contentious as it is (and forced upon us as it often is).

This is from a recent Ofcom report:

The new Ofcom media use survey came out last week.
This bit caught my eye.

www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

Wow 🤯

It’s 5pm on the Thursday before an Easter weekend, the sun is shining, and London’s street corners are full of drinkers 🍻

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

“We value your privacy”

A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.

More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

UK £500M AI Fund | Sovereign AI Launch April 16th The UK's £500 million artificial intelligence fund launches April 16th, 18:00 GMT. Building on Britain's legacy from Ada Lovelace to AlphaFold.

Nice website and nice narrative sovereignai.gov.uk

The death rattle of newspapers is sooo weird, a totally random PR story that someone put on a print product bought by the same number of people who live in Basingstoke, who are rapidly dying. And this will for some reason be discussed on national TV. No wonder the future is influencers.

"Brand is what's left when the substantive differences between products disappear. But making the substantive differences between products disappear is what technology naturally tends to do." Paul Graham writes about The Brand Age (though inevitably he's not a fan)... paulgraham.com/brandage.html

Realising that prediction markets are based on a simplistic and erroneous folk belief about journalism (“journalism is about accurately forecasting events”). A bit like adtech (“ads are about selling stuff immediately”).

Just feels so dated somehow!

It’s not the 2010s, dear coffee shop. Get this off your wall.

This is a remarkable map of attitudes to tech across Britain, with a stark urban-rural divide.

The full data here is well worth a read: www.moreincommon.org.uk/blog/britons...

Staff journalists sacked and misleadingly replaced with AI writers A network of gaming sites has fired multiple human staff in recent days and replaced them with AI writers, complete with fake pics and biogs.

This is a remarkable story. A PR agency has bought a gaming site, fired the journalists, and replaced them with AI bots.

pressgazette.co.uk/news/staff-j...

Just clocked that Trump has taken his country to war without giving a primetime address or an even a traditional press conference. Only a video on his own (!) social media platform. Legacy media totally circumvented.

Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.

great news: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don’t Panic (Yet): Assessing the Evidence and Discourse Around Generative AI and Elections

An excellent paper from @felixsimon.bsky.social on why claims about the impact of generative AI on elections have been overblown (with relevance for media literacy in general) knightcolumbia.org/content/dont...