Every week I do a round-up of things I have been reading.
Weekly reading round-ups
A round-up of things I have been reading each week:
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WTF now?!: Monday 3–Sunday 9 February 2025
Trump’s war on the US government is impacting arts and culture, there are more audiobooks coming to Spotify and Google backs away from its commitment not to use its AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → for weapons.
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WTF now?!: Monday 27 January–Sunday 2 February 2025
DeepSeekA Chinese AI company that caused a stir in January 2025 with two LLMs that challenged Sillicon Valley’s AI dominance. Learn more → Chinese AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → has Silicon Valley spooked, copyright and AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → issues continue, internet filtering to fight piracy re-emerges in the US and Spotify talks up its role in music while reducing royalties.
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WTF now?: Monday 20–Sunday 26 January 2025
With all the changes on Meta platforms they are trying to retain advertisers, and they are adding ads to Threads. Also, text has been acquired by Penguin Random House, Spotify’s music royalties are down for unknown reasons and Creative Commons has a new strategy.
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WTF now?: Monday 13–Sunday 19 January 2025
The US Supreme Court has upheld the TikTok ban and the vertical video app is offline in the US, tech regulation will take a turn towards innovation and competitiveness under Trump and there are serious concerns about Australian theatres.
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(Un)read in the ledger: Monday 6–Sunday 12 January 2025
So much of the media cycle this week was dominated by US Presidential politics and how the technology and media companies are responding to Trump’s second term. Most significantly, Meta announced changes to fact-checking and hate speech that will make its platforms more problematic.