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  • Anthropic, makers of AI Assistant Claude, is going after their competition with a series of ads to designed to give users pause after the Open AI’s announcement that ads would be coming to their product, Chat GPT. The campaign, Time and a Place, was envisioned by Mother London, extending Claude’s positioning from the Keep Thinking…

    Claude’s New Ads Challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT
  • Went to visit the excellent selection of ephemera on display at the New York Public Library and picked out a few choice pieces to share. A The Century of The New Yorker is free to the public on the third floor of the main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue in Manhattan and well…

    The New Yorker archives
  • In Japan gifts are launched as missiles, serving, if rightly chosen, to stun the recipient, or as least to nudge him or her off balance.

    The Tyranny of Gift-Giving in Japan
  • At the American Museum of Natural History in NYC is the Scales of the Universe. In the center of a large atrium is the Hayden Sphere which serves as a point of reference around which other objects are placed to give you a sense of scale. 26.5 meters (87 feet) in diameter—represents the size of…

    Universal Scale
  • I tried something different this year, asked Chat GPT to summarize the year for me.

    How AI Redefined Access and Ownership in 2025
  • The AI industry’s demand for electricity has outstripped the power industry’s capacity to deliver. Bloomberg says two data centers sit idle, waiting for more power to come online. To meet their growing need for power, AI companies are taking power generation into their own hands. One data center in Texas is bolting old jet engines…

    AI Energy Suck
  • Inspired by Anil’s hope for an “easter egg breakdown” of the mayor-elect’s victory speech, I spent some time digging in. I know there’s more that I’ve missed, add your own in the comments below. [walks out to Ja Rule’s New York] The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs…

    Mamdani’s Victory Speech – annotated
  • On a subzero New York night, a pianist met two robbers. What followed was not a fight, but an eight-hour conversation — and a promise that changed three lives.

    A Bond Born from a Robbery
  • I was fortunate to be invited last week to the kick off meeting for an IAB Tech Lab task force dedicated to establishing a framework for Monetizing the Open Web in the age of AI. The accelerated use of tools such as OpenAI’s Chat GPT, MSN’s CoPilot and Google’s AI Overview has precipitated a re-thinking…

    Publishing in an Agentic AI World