Aerial site model showing the proposed building (blue) next to the railway and the shadows it would cast across Bethnal Green Gardens.
A 52m student block is planned beside Bethnal Green Gardens.
11 storeys. 520 student rooms. Right by the gardens.
We’ve put together a simple guide explaining what’s proposed and how to object:
bethnal-green.london
Please share.
📖 New book entry: Grammarly sold AI writing tips under the names of hundreds of real journalists and authors. None of them had agreed. One of them had been dead for two months: open.substack.com/pub/generati...
Thank you!
AI & Me - a snapshot of how people in publishing are using AI right now.
Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing.
Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk
Athletes use tech to optimise performance, but they still do their drills to preserve reflexes and attention. Are we outsourcing too much, too fast, and paying the price in critical thinking, focus, memory, and recollection?
Let AI handle the boring stuff so humans can do more intellectually challenging work. But what if that boring, repetitive work actually matters? What if it's what keeps our judgment sharp?
Sol Rashidi on "intellectual atrophy”: businessofcreativity.beehiiv.com/p/issue-98-a...
Business wants "pace and profusion, quickness over quality, speed over substance - we are looking for shortcuts everywhere, and all in search of 'more'."
It's forgetting the first turn of fairly short conversations, responding extremely and infuriatingly literally, interpreting rather than following explicit instructions.... ☹️
I ask it to find the name of a product in an image and I get a load of drivel and something that is obviously inaccurate. Switch back to an older model and, although it doesn't get the answer right, at least it's plausible.
Thinking it might be time to dump #ChatGPT 5.1. I am having so many problems with the model. I oost a small table of preferred date/time mtg response data, I get back incomprehensible/inaccurate results after much thought. Switch back to 5, and I get an immediate and correct response.
New GenAI for Curious people post about AI's original sin - copyright theft: generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/ais-origin...
* 84% of publishers see AI-generated content as their biggest research integrity threat over the next 3-5 years, & 63% plan to increase automated AI content detection within 2 years.
* Over 60% plan to increase automated research integrity checks, with 61% targeting plagiarism detection.
* Among those using AI, 55% save 1-5 hours weekly, but 31% report no time savings.
* Sentiment toward AI is mixed. 48% feel somewhat positive about AI's potential in publishing, 28% feel negative, and the rest are neutral.
A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n...
Some stats:
* Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
Masthead for the Q4 2025 issue of the Maverick Insider newsletter.
Maverick’s Q4 Insider newsletter is out now – themed “Building a Foundation for Technical Success” with details on how a systematic audit and prioritized roadmap can provide a managed way to improve systems and the workflows that depend on them.
Read the insider: bit.ly/47vtn6q
Why did Monday do this to us?
youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?...
🎵 AI had the time of my life,
AI never felt this way before...🎵
Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!
New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
Your AI Safety Position is "The Cautious Builder"
I built this quiz for an AI Safety Collab - Summer 2025 Program project. Takes 2 mins and tells you your AI safety personality
mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/
I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.
Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press.
🔗 booksbypeople.org
New #GenerativeAIforCuriousPeople post inspired by Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is processing 3.15 quadrillion tokens. I had to look up what a quadrillion was (15 zeros) & then I wondered what else is counted in Quadrillions…
generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...
Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
Copywriting word cloud in an open tablet next to a pen and a cup of coffee.
Maverick’s copywriting services help scholarly publishers use the written word to reach their audience in a variety of ways. Learn more and see examples in our new blog post
“Get the Message Out with Maverick’s Copywriting Services” bit.ly/3UZ3NzC
Rendering of a woman standing in the middle of a dark maze with lights guiding the way for her.
A new post for Maverick’s Insider blog provides complete details of our Interim Placement services, including examples of how we’ve solved staffing challenges for numerous publishers.
Read “Solve Staffing Challenges with Interim Support” bit.ly/3JkuBb1
Fascinating - both the story and the robot. Is this Marketing or Art?
thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...
