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What do we do when the facts don't matter?
As a journalist by training, I have what you might call an addiction to facts.
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Mathew Ingram
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We shouldn't blame AI for the stupid things that people do
You might have noticed that there’s a tiny bit of anxiety about artificial intelligence these days — its design, its implementation, its uses and…
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Why Substack shouldn't be the future of online publishing
I'd like to apologize in advance for the topic of this week's newsletter, which I fear may not interest all (or perhaps even most) of you.
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Mathew Ingram

June 2025

Judge says AI engines can index books but can't pirate them
Ever since ChatGPT first emerged on the scene in 2022, there has been a vociferous debate about whether the indexing (or "scraping") of public content…
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Mathew Ingram
Reports of Bluesky's death have been greatly exaggerated
A little over six months ago, I (and pretty much everyone else with a pulse) was writing about Bluesky's meteoric growth, which seemed to be driven in…
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Is AI smarter than we are or stupider than we are? Yes
This isn’t an AI newsletter per se, in the sense that I don’t always write about it.
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Mathew Ingram
How Marc Andreessen and I (and you) created the web
I've never met Marc Andreessen, although at one time in the distant past we were Twitter friends — I enjoyed the long threads he used to do, and I wrote…
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Mathew Ingram

May 2025

Apple is a great company, except for when it isn't
Let's get this out of the way right up front: I don't have an iPhone, I have a Pixel.
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If AI helps to kill the open web what will replace it?
If you've been following the news about Google's I/O conference at all, you probably know that it was all about artificial intelligence — and that isn't…
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Some thoughts on how people (including me) are using AI
As many of you may have noticed, some of these Torment Nexus newsletters involve the presentation of a bunch of evidence in the form of links, followed…
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The Trump administration is building a Panopticon
It seems quaint now, but not that long ago, one of the biggest reasons for concern about the surveillance of our behavior by massive internet platforms…
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