Skip to content
HeyJared

GRIST News Features & Bluegrass Review

Anything is grist for this mill where you will find selected hard news stories, feature reporting, analysis, opinion -- and more. (Bluegrass music is a passion.)

Newsletter · By Paul Conant · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
10
Latest publication
Sep 26, 2026
Audience
Checking…
Earliest in this view
Aug 15, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    Deep dive into DeepMind (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    Paradigm shift in race to superintelligence<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="608" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1_5D!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo

  2. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    AI stories from GRIST (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    As a service to news professionals and others, GRIST is providing links to its AI stories, beginning with the latest and extending back to 2022.Because of Substack technical issues, I have placed the list at another site, which can be reached via this link:https://tubealloys979.blogspot.com/2026/09/ai-stories-from-grist.html<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VGwV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubs

  3. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Swept up in beautiful Dreamin’ (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

    Read excerpt

    The Petersens carry you away with this potent potionA stupendously delightful performance on all fronts is what the Petersens give us with their version of California Dreamin’, that harmonious 1960s classic by the Mamas & the Papas.Really, it is quite amazing that an Ozarks Bluegrass band -- even if it does perform a lot of non-Trad material -- not only pulls this off, but does so with such elegance, such

  4. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    AI choke points worsen (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    A guide for journalists and othersGRIST asks your forbearance for sending so many posts about AI that use AI. But I do try to make my posts potentially useful to journalists, as when bots disclose what the human AI honchos are playing down.What is the latest on the current state of frontier models, and what are the choke points that lay ahead? I queried ChatGPT on this topic and had it write an article based on the prompts suitable for the intelligent lay person, which includes journalists.In ca

  5. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    AI biz slugfest (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    Frontier biggies clash with White House, other AI firms<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="562" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1ksO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

No verified audience measurement yet.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about GRIST News Features & Bluegrass Review