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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 New issue of PubTech Radar: This issue covers a lot of launches, plus publishing tech news, some stats, AI developments, opportunities, and a selection of longer pieces: pubtechradar.substack.com/p/pubtech-ra...

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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 45

This issue covers a lot of launches, plus publishing tech news, some stats, AI developments, opportunities and a selection of longer pieces.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Not sure this will come as a surprise to anyone in the UK: "The most strained reviewer market is found in the UK, with 1M invitations expected of a pool of 142,000 reviewers (just over seven reviews per potential reviewer).”

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

For example, reviewer invitations sent by journals via ScholarOne rose from 9M in 2018 to nearly 21.5M in 2025 (some caveats around that stat in the report). Despite working in academic publishing for years and understanding the scale, I still find the size of numbers like this staggering.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The ScholarOne Future of Peer Review 2026 report is out. I'm one of the interviewees, which gives me a vested interest in flagging it, but it does contain some interesting data. www.silverchair.com/news/future-...

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REPORT: 2026 Future of Peer Review - Silverchair

The second annual report on trends and transformation brings a comprehensive analysis to what's working and what isn't in peer review.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New post about Xenoreproduction or the art of deliberately making things strange within GenAI outputs: open.substack.com/pub/generati...

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Xenoreproduction

Xenoreproduction is the art of deliberately making things strange.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

BCS and BCSWomen have responded to the DSIT Women in Tech Taskforce call for evidence, Building a Future Tech Sector that Works for Everyone, highlighting changing job roles, barriers to upskilling for underrepresented groups, and the uneven impact of AI: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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BCS responds to the DSIT Women in Tech Taskforce

BCS has responded to the DSIT Women in Tech Taskforce call for evidence, Building a Future Tech Sector that Works for Everyone. BCSWomen played a central role in shaping the submission.

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BGL @bthnlgrnldn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A 52m student block is planned beside Bethnal Green Gardens. 11 storeys. 520 student rooms. Right by the gardens. We’ve put together a simple guide explaining what’s proposed and how to object: bethnal-green.london Please share.

Aerial site model showing the proposed building (blue) next to the railway and the shadows it would cast across Bethnal Green Gardens.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

📖 New book entry: Grammarly sold AI writing tips under the names of hundreds of real journalists and authors. None of them had agreed. One of them had been dead for two months: open.substack.com/pub/generati...

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Algorithmic Allonymy: The Grammarly Expert Review Scandal

Grammarly built a feature that generated fake writing advice and signed it with real people's names.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing. Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk

AI & Me - a snapshot of how people in publishing are using AI right now.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Athletes use tech to optimise performance, but they still do their drills to preserve reflexes and attention. Are we outsourcing too much, too fast, and paying the price in critical thinking, focus, memory, and recollection?

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Let AI handle the boring stuff so humans can do more intellectually challenging work. But what if that boring, repetitive work actually matters? What if it's what keeps our judgment sharp?

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Sol Rashidi on "intellectual atrophy”: businessofcreativity.beehiiv.com/p/issue-98-a... Business wants "pace and profusion, quickness over quality, speed over substance - we are looking for shortcuts everywhere, and all in search of 'more'."

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Issue 98: A Bulletin for Big Ideas and Better Business

Sol Rashidi on AI: avoid “intellectual atrophy” by using it to amplify creativity, not outsource your brain.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's forgetting the first turn of fairly short conversations, responding extremely and infuriatingly literally, interpreting rather than following explicit instructions.... ☹️

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I ask it to find the name of a product in an image and I get a load of drivel and something that is obviously inaccurate. Switch back to an older model and, although it doesn't get the answer right, at least it's plausible.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Thinking it might be time to dump #ChatGPT 5.1. I am having so many problems with the model. I oost a small table of preferred date/time mtg response data, I get back incomprehensible/inaccurate results after much thought. Switch back to 5, and I get an immediate and correct response.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

* 84% of publishers see AI-generated content as their biggest research integrity threat over the next 3-5 years, & 63% plan to increase automated AI content detection within 2 years. * Over 60% plan to increase automated research integrity checks, with 61% targeting plagiarism detection.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

* Among those using AI, 55% save 1-5 hours weekly, but 31% report no time savings. * Sentiment toward AI is mixed. 48% feel somewhat positive about AI's potential in publishing, 28% feel negative, and the rest are neutral.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n... Some stats: * Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.

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2025 Report: Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers

Insights into smaller-sized publishers' technical priorities, from research integrity to AI adoption.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Why did Monday do this to us? youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?... 🎵 AI had the time of my life, AI never felt this way before...🎵 Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!

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Meet monday sidekick - AI you’ll love to use

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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...

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Big Ideas in Publishing: Jonathan Woahn on AI Licensing Infrastructure

New interview: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, re...

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I built this quiz for an AI Safety Collab - Summer 2025 Program project. Takes 2 mins and tells you your AI safety personality mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/

Your AI Safety Position is "The Cautious Builder"

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.

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Elon Musk: 3 Years of X, OpenAI Lawsuit, Bill Gates, Grokipedia & The Future of Everything

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press. 🔗 booksbypeople.org

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Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world

Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New #GenerativeAIforCuriousPeople post inspired by Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is processing 3.15 quadrillion tokens. I had to look up what a quadrillion was (15 zeros) & then I wondered what else is counted in Quadrillions… generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...

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Quadrillions of tokens

Quadrillions?

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...

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Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

From @pressgazette.co.uk: A PR agency is flogging an AI that auto-generates expert quotes with fictional bios and pre-written charm aimed at Journalists. It’s fast and it's scalable, but do we really want to live in this kind of world? 🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...

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PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists

A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Interesting listen - This episode of The Inquiry discusses the trade-offs between productivity and mental acuity in the digital age: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Inquiry - Is AI eroding our critical thinking? - BBC Sounds

Are we allowing AI to make our brains lazy?

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A reminder of how pervasive gender bias can be. This study found that when given identical profiles, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a $280,000 target salary for a woman versus $400,000 for a man solely based on gender: thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

New study from the Max‑Planck Institute: ChatGPT has begun influencing human speech. Analysis of over 740,000 hours of academic podcasts and YouTube lectures shows a significant surge in ChatGPT‑preferred vocabulary such as “delve,” “comprehend” and “meticulous” since 2022. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I used to sit next to someone who wrote abstract summaries for a series of academic journals, condensing complex, nuanced thinking into tight little summaries. It was meticulous, relentless work that usually left them a touch frayed by lunchtime. I suspect Carr would have quietly sympathised.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A long and interesting read from Nicholas Carr. A historical critique of our obsession with 'informational compression'. He makes a compelling case that the tech world’s love of efficiency risks draining the richness, soul, & meaning from the world: www.newcartographies.com/p/against-co...

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Against Compression

Let me not boil it down for you.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Fame at last! Really touched to get a shoutout from @georgewalkley.com during his fantastic talk, AI: Threats and Opportunities for Publishers, at the PLS conference today. Great insights and perspectives. Link to AI in academic publishing case studies list: coda.io/d/AI-Powered...

Slide from George Walkley’s talk about opportunities and threats of AI for Publishers

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

As RAG-based chatbots find themselves locked out of the latest information, we may be witnessing the shift from a shared commons to a gated web where access is no longer free but brokered. Unless intelligent agents come armed with wallets, only giants like Google may keep their AIs properly fed.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The web is no longer an open picnic for AI. Cloudflare’s new Pay-Per-Crawl feature lets publishers charge bots per request, dusting off the HTTP 402 code and handing creators more control: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

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Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

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Helen King - Innovation Ideas @innovationideas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“Afterlife” is a wonderfully creative yet utterly disturbing example of AI storytelling. It's evocative, unsettling, and well-crafted. It pulls you into a world where bots and avatars feel eerily human and alive. #AI #Veo3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iig...

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Afterlife: The Unseen Lives of AI Actors Between Prompts

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