Issue #100 - State of the Union

May 18, 2025
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In This Issue

  • Editorial
    • 100 Issues of Synthetic Work – State of Union.
  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • Norway Wealth Fund is to freeze hiring because of AI.
    • The UK government blocks amendment about copyright material in AI models.
    • YouTube introduces AI features to simplify content creation and editing.
  • Prompting
    • Your prompts must look like this.
  • The Tools of the Trade
    • OpenAI o3: it was good while it lasted.

Editorial

100 Issues of Synthetic Work – State of the Union

My daughter is 16 and, as we speak, she’s going through the cycle of national exams at the end of secondary school known as GCSE in the UK.

One of the History exams is about human migrations throughout the ages. The topic is so vast and so rich of names, dates, and motivations that she struggled to remember all the details.

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