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Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg · 15/02/2026

This is such a fun idea to put together I spent a few hours at the weekend replicating it on @cloudflare.social An open source 'Manosphere Report' you can deploy to your own newsroom today with a single command, track any podcast & generate summaries. Link & demo below ⤵️

A dashboard of the Manosphere report showing six podcasts referenced in the article and a summary of their latest episodes combined

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The New York Times is using LLMs to transcribe and summarize episodes of more than 80 podcasts that are part of the "manosphere." The resulting email digest lands in journalists' inboxes every morning. I spoke with @zachseward.com about the tool for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

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How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”

The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 16/09/2025

The new version of notification summaries for news apps in iOS 26 solves the problem of introducing errors by being as boring as possible.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 10/09/2025

Today is the 10th anniversary of Apple forcing that U2 album on everyone’s iTunes, and let it be known that, to this day, my two-year-old loves the HomePod because every time he touches it, it plays U2.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 22/08/2025

FaceID not recognizing you is the new someone saying you look tired

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 19/08/2025

"GPT-4o wouldn’t do that." @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com talked to ChatGPT users in parasocial relationships with a specific model about what they did when it suddenly went away. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

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The Chatbot Updated. Users Lost a Friend.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 08/08/2025

On the internet, nobody knows you're a pelican riding a bicycle.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 08/08/2025

Incredible deep dive into one man's three-week delusional spiral caused by ChatGPT. @kashhill.bsky.social and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com analyzed the chats, totaling more than a million words, to explain why this keeps happening and demonstrate that all the major chatbots do it.

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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 08/08/2025

What kind of chaotic-evil pasta does not provide a recommended cooking time?

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 04/07/2025

I’ve read a hundred stories about the grass at Wimbledon in my lifetime, and I’ll gladly read a hundred more on.ft.com/4lFmDHm

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 15/06/2025

Remembering my dad this weekend, a year after his death. www.zachseward.com/stephen-clar...

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My eulogy for Dad

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World Editors Forum @worldeditorsforum.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

By building tools based on repeated patterns, @nytimes.com is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalistic standards of accuracy and verification, explains @zachseward.com. wan-ifra.org/2025/05/divi...

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Divining data: How AI invigorates The New York Times' approach to investigative reporting

2025-05-30. By building tools based on repeated patterns, The New York Times is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalisti...

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 22/05/2025

Live sports on Amazon Prime Video: When you can’t find the game anywhere else, it’s on Prime.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 12/05/2025

My contribution to this collection is a mood. www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 23/04/2025

Loved this ode to Skype, for the memories and the chance to hear that amazing ringtone, which "was created using a blend of natural sounds like wind, water, and even a human breath to make it feel both familiar and abstract." restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...

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When the world connected on Skype

On the eve of its demise, Rest of World readers remember how Skype changed their world.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 14/04/2025

You may leave here for four days in space But when you return, it’s the same old place The pounding of the drums, the pride and disgrace Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace www.theguardian.com/science/live...

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Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and four others arrive back on Earth after space flight – live | Blue Origin | The Guardian

The Amazon founder’s Blue Origin lands minutes after liftoff at 9.30am ET

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 08/04/2025

I’m quoted in this thoughtful @newyorker.com essay, “Will A.I. Save the News?” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 07/04/2025

Quartz, the business news startup I worked on for a dozen years, through the height of digital media and the sector's crash, has fired all its writers and been sold to its fifth owner. So it felt like time to reflect. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...

Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 06/04/2025

Not enough attention is being paid to the legality of Trump’s tariffs. If the Supreme Court rules the administration overstepped its power, which seems likely to me, then everything from the market reaction to essays about the end of globalization will seem silly in retrospect.

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 31/03/2025

Come work on my team! The A.I. Initiatives team at NYT blends machine learning and journalism to explore creative tools and empower responsible reporting. We have a lot of fun and are excited to expand for the first time since I was hired last year. Remote-friendly! My DMs open for questions. #jobs

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, A.I. Initiatives

New York, NY; Remote - USA

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 03/04/2025

Charactertically blunt language from the FT on the US tariff formula: • crude methodology • deeply flawed • economically illiterate • divorced from the reality of trade economics on.ft.com/4jgSAoe

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Donald Trump baffles economists with tariff formula

Calculation deeply flawed economically and will fail in stated aim of ‘driving bilateral trade deficits to zero’, say analysts

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 01/04/2025

Is this an ad for immortality?

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 26/12/2024

New definition of AGI just dropped, and it’s a classic www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

In addition, last year’s agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI, which hasn’t been disclosed, said AGI would be achieved only when OpenAI has developed systems that have the ability to generate the maximum total profits to which its earliest investors, including Microsoft, are entitled, according to documents OpenAI distributed to investors. Those profits total about $100 billion, the documents showed.

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Zach Seward @zachseward.com · 18/12/2024

TP-Link grew from 20% of the US internet router market to 65% in the past five years. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

TP-Link’s U.S. growth took off during the pandemic, when people were sent home to work and needed reliable internet. The company climbed from around 20% of the U.S. market for home and small-business routers in 2019 to around 65% this year. It took an additional 5% of the market in just the third quarter of this year, according to industry data. The TP-Link spokeswoman disputed the industry data but said the company’s market share has grown in the U.S.

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