AI
2025: The year in LLMs
Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Technology
The next big thing in 2026 will be...
This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.
Media
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
life
A 2026 checklist
A way to build a habit out of what's important.
2025: a personal year in review
Highlights and hopes for the new year.
Notable links
Friday links: December 26, 2025
An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.
Technology
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.
Technology
An ... interesting year
On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.
Technology
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
Media
Lies we tell ourselves
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Notable links
Friday links: December 19, 2025
Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.
Business
The Go/No Go Date
"Feeling fear goes hand-in-hand with being ambitious. Imposter syndrome is real and normal. In fact, if you aren't feeling fear in what you do, I'd argue that you aren't being ambitious enough." Here's a way to build in the fear and do it anyway.