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felixsimon.bsky.social
Research Fellow in AI and News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate & DPhil, Oxford Internet Institute | AI, news, misinfo, tech, democracy | Affiliate Tow Center, CITAP | Media advisor | My views etc… https://www.felixsimon.net/
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Sacha Altay and I have been cooking and it's nearly ready for the world. And with that, happy weekend all, I need a drink now.

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Struggling to process this --- I’m heartbroken. I was supposed to meet a brilliant Bangladeshi MIT PhD candidate yesterday morning. Chatted just a few days ago. Less than an hour before our meeting, I learned he is no longer with us in this world. 1/n #academicSky #scienceFunding

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Over here we have already named a street in honour of today

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There is *no* better feeling than returning from a dinner with no idea of what’s happening to open the socials on a night lights this. 10/10

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hello from SXSW where @chriscook.news‬, ‪@samjoiner.bsky.social‬, @alisonkilling.bsky.social‬ & I looked at computational reporting in the news, the new possibilities it opens up, the skills it requires and how AI is not solving everything on this front Bonus: Almost collided with ABBA's Björn

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@felixsimon.bsky.social‬, Research Fellow in AI and Digital News at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social‬ , comments on ‪@cnn.com‬ on the challenges of using AI within newsrooms: edition.cnn.com/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In response to @fdaudens.bsky.social post on the other site: Sure looks like Meta is trying to cut out the intermediaries in the advertising market (aka advertising firms)?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Prioritise growth by cutting core research funding. Because as everyone knows core research doesn’t do anything for growth 🙄

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Last Saturday, Linda Eggert and I were delighted to welcome a group of 30 fantastic speakers and guests for a symposium on AI agents at Balliol College, thanks to the support of the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute. Summary report later this summer, some first impressions…

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Political economy of AI and news, latest: “The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms” buff.ly/uUmCGNu

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Underrated use case of ChatGPT o3: Turning structured PDFs with event programmes into calendar entries for easy import into Outlook and iCal. Just turned 4 pages into broken down calendar entries, something that would have cost me at least 20min to do manually (instead of 2min).

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Good old post-its 🗒️ currently beating the AI 🤖 in helping me restructure a complex section.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Comms/AI/ethics scholars: Which journals at the nexus of these topics accept submissions that have been out as a pre-print? Working on a project that has this as a requirement, so any recommendations much appreciated.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Done for today 🍷

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The New York Times' Talya Minsberg asked me for my opinion on the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer's article which recommended nonexistent books because someone had used AI. Article below, some thoughts in the thread... buff.ly/M5xffPu

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment