First time in a Waymo last night in Atl. It got me home. Odd route, not the most direct. The acceleration felt … not human. Anxiety crossing roads after a stop or as erratic pedestrians and bikers nearby but the display helps… autonomous cars are here.

Lord Elgin catching some serious (deserved) shade at the Acropolis.

Google's "AI Mode" in action. To the extent anyone uses it, this will be a traffic killer for news: two clicks to actually visit a site and you have to click the link icon for the sidebar to update with the sources so it also limits source credibility signals.

Added in some new organization to the content on the Generative AI in the Newsroom (GAIN) blog. Can now navigate to posts about use cases, audiences, evaluation, prompting, ethics, and legal issues: generative-ai-newsroom.com

What do news audiences expect of journalists' use of generative AI? New research from @tjthomson.bsky.social and @ryanjthomas.bsky.social on GAIN today outlining expectations and comfort levels with different uses of GenAI in news production: generative-ai-newsroom.com/how-do-news-...

OpenAI has a long way to go to build an effective search experience for news. Nice research from @towcenter.bsky.social - www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

The US really needs to do something about this…