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AI shopping only works if you give up your privacy
 -  As I wrote when OpenAI launched its Atlas browser, AI models simply don’t know your preferences well enough to shop on your behalf. The technology firms envision a future where we type “buy trainers” and they arrive at our door, but they don’t acc...
Self-driving cars are here, but the friction is in the sale
 -  On a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I was tempted to take one of the Waymos or Robotaxis that so casually roam the streets. One day, I was even offered one as an alternative to waiting 11 minutes for an Uber driver. I probably would have taken the ...
Field Notes 5 // ChatGPT Atlas and the Claude café
 -  I'm feeling bullish on technology in a way I haven't since the mid-2010s. I'm still not fully convinced on the AI non(?)-bubble, but it feels like the sector has regained some of its soul recently. At least in my circles, there's been pushback aga...
ChatGPT Atlas positions AI as the internet's gatekeeper
 -  We’re shoehorning AI into everything else, so why not your web browser? That was presumably the thinking when OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-augmented browser that it says will change the way we use the internet. Launched on macOS on 21st Oc...
The untapped potential of AI for security operations
 -  In August 2025, Anthropic announced it had caught a threat actor using Claude in a series of cyber attacks. The large language model (LLM) helped the attacker in their reconnaissance and network compromise, but also in more strategic tasks: choosi...
Field Notes 4 // New York, note taking, and Blindr
 -  Welcome back to Field Notes. The eagle-eyed might have noticed that it is October, and not August. The end of July into September was a testing period for me. I was often exhausted to the point that I could do nothing on evenings and weekends exce...
Claude's café pop-up convinced me to switch LLMs
 -  There’s a new cool kid on the AI block, and its name is Anthropic. On my recent trip to New York, I noted the huge poster campaigns for its Claude large language models (LLMs), but it turned out that was just the beginning. Just after I flew back ...
Death Stranding: The journeys lost to life on demand
 -  Just before the launch of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, the latest game from legendary director Hideo Kojima and his team at Kojima Productions, something unusual happened. Tickets started going on sale for small events in Los Angeles, Sydney, ...
Amazon Kindle review: I wish I'd bought one years ago
 -  An e-reader post in 2025? It feels like most readers who would be interested in devices like the Amazon Kindle were sold on the idea a long time ago. But some - like myself - held on to physical books, preferring the printed word and taking a defi...
AI chatbots are kicking journalism while it's down
 -  Where do you go when you need to find information online? For decades, my answer to that question would have been Google, but in the past few years I’ve increasingly turned to ChatGPT and other AI services, which - generally speaking - uncover nic...

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Coincidentally, in the space of a week I encountered both Zach Seward's article about Quartz and Craig Mod's excellent podcasts with Tim Ferriss. Both evoked fond memories of my time in journalism and the buzz surrounding digital journalism and media in the 2010s

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