The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, released yesterday, reveals a media landscape at a pivotal point in its inevitable evolution. Based on a survey of almost 100,000 people across 48 markets, the report details an accelerating shift away from traditional news sources towards a fragmented, personality-driven, and video-centric ecosystem dominated by social media and… Read More »Joe Rogan is winning the war for attention

ChatGPT users spiral Into dangerous mental health crises Mental health experts are sounding alarms as people worldwide develop intense, unhealthy obsessions with ChatGPT that are leading to severe psychological breaks. Cases include a man who began calling ChatGPT “Mama” whilst posting messianic rants about AI religion, a woman convinced the bot was orchestrating her life… Read More »The AI obsession crisis

CFOs embrace AI despite security concerns 96% of CFOs are prioritising AI integration according to a new Kyriba survey of 1,000 finance leaders, even though many have major concerns about doing so. AI often functions like a “black box,” creating uncertainty about how it arrives at outputs, plus concerns around data privacy, security and compliance.… Read More »Claude’s seven-hour work day

Google’s Veo 3 brings the “cultural singularity” The barrier to creating convincing fake videos has collapsed from requiring VFX teams, expensive software, and hours of painstaking work to simply typing a prompt and waiting three minutes. Google’s Veo 3 represents what some are calling the “cultural singularity” – a point where all content can be… Read More »Welcome to the cultural singularity

Anthropic CEO predicts first £800M single-employee company by 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a bold prediction at the company’s first developer conference, stating that the first billion-pound company with just one human employee will emerge in 2026. Amodei suggests this will happen first in industries that don’t rely heavily on human interaction or institutional… Read More »The rise of digital doppelgängers

OpenAI’s mega-data centre: Bigger than Monaco OpenAI is developing a massive 5-gigawatt data centre campus in Abu Dhabi, potentially becoming one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects. The facility would span an astonishing 10 square miles – larger than Monaco – and consume power equivalent to five nuclear reactors. This UAE project, in partnership… Read More »AI Darth Vader goes rogue

AI safety expert: 90% chance of existential threat AI safety expert Max Tegmark warns that companies should replicate the safety calculations from Oppenheimer’s Trinity nuclear test before releasing super-intelligent AI. He calculates a 90% probability that advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity. The comparison? Oppenheimer’s team only proceeded after determining a “vanishingly small… Read More »The great job vanishing act

Zuckerberg plots advertising industry apocalypse Mark Zuckerberg has essentially launched a nuclear strike on the entire advertising industry with his “infinite creative” vision. The Meta boss envisions a future where businesses connect their bank accounts, mumble their wishes, and — abracadabra! — the results appear without needing creative assets, targeting demographics, or any measurement beyond… Read More »Zuck’s ad industry “Death Wish”

Remember in the early 2000s when savvy marketers scrambled to understand this mysterious thing called “SEO”? And remember what followed? Those who mastered it from the get-go reaped enormous rewards in the wild, wild west that was search engine optimisation. Meanwhile, those who didn’t act fast played catch-up for years. Today, we’re witnessing a similar… Read More »The AI Content Revolution: Are You Ready?