Peter Gasston

On July 21st, 404 media published AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop.

For a few years now I’ve written a weekly newsletter, Tech Landscape, that rounds up new feature and product announcements in digital technology (90% AI these days), social media, and online culture, with some comment and insight where appropriate.

In math, you know 2+2 is 4.

How a model of the world can make a more believable breaking wine glass Last year I thought that AI images had more or less hit a plateau in terms of what they could offer.

“We need to create new IP.

Narrative violation: The approximately 100 occupations most exposed to AI automation are actually outperforming the rest of the [US] labor market in terms of job growth and real wage increases.

An emerging theme this year is capability overhang — the "gaps between what the models can do and what most people actually do with them".

Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram (on Threads / Instagram): Looking forward to 2026, one new significant shift is that authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible.

I noticed a trend of people saying that to get better results from Google Veo you should write prompts using more complex, machine-optimised (JSON) formatting; the one that looks something like this: "shot": { "composition": "four-way split-screen (2×2),…

These two stories, saved next to each other in my feed reader, are directly related: From Content and Community, by Ben Thompson: So, are existing publishers doomed?