Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Publishing for the week ending August 7, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A fine-art nocturne of a single open hardcover book resting on a flat stone at the edge of a glassy black pond, thin mist drifting across its pages, surrounded by muted marsh reeds and slate stones, with a dense field of silver starlight overhead perfectly mirrored in the still water and a faint distant warm glow on the low horizon, painterly realism in deep indigo and blue-black with generous negative sky above for a bold title, no moon, no people, no text.
This Week in Publishing News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Publishing news in this batch was mostly about AI entering the review process and creative platforms. Refine announced partnerships with the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society, which now use its AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes. Ethan Mollick separately noted a growing split in academia between journals that ban AI for reviews and journals that require it.
On the creative side, Snap posted about rewarding authentic creativity on Spotlight, and Mollick remarked that AI models still stink at good long-form fiction. Noah Smith, meanwhile, argued that tech journalism has become almost entirely about relationships, politics and deals, with the sense of wonder about the technology itself gone.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Publishing
Gemini Spark can now tap into @GoogleChrome’s auto browse feature to take care of complex errands for you online 🔎 With your permission, Gemini Spark can use your logged-in accounts to take care of tasks like scheduling viewings for apartments you’ve saved or researching flight”
https://x.com/Google/status/2084306026577244627
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet | Cloudflare Blog
https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/
Cloudflare built a browser that runs INSIDE a Cloudflare Worker 🤯 Cloudflare Agents Week day 4 is here, and it’s a banger: 🪁 Kitesurf: agent-first browser running on Workers 🕸️ WebMCP: Give any website an MCP interface ⚒️ The next generation of MCP is here 🔍 AI Search”
https://x.com/ashleypeacock/status/2085351882952761397
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers | Cloudflare Blog
https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
The Agent Access Model | Cloudflare Blog
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-agent-access-model/
We just launched the Reddit for AI use cases. A place for builders to learn from other builders on how they’re using AI to get ahead in life, work, and business. The submissions have been INCREDIBLE so far. A few of my favorites:”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2083971684558848500
OpenAI’s Unreleased Model Astra Solves Ten Major Open Mathematics Problems | Don’t Worry About the Vase
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/openais-unreleased-model-astra-solves-ten-major-open-mathematics-problems/
All the cliches about tech journalism are true. It has become almost entirely about the human relationships, the intrigues, the politics, the deals, etc. The sense of wonder at the future possibilities of the tech itself is gone.”
https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/2083676898551627877
Rewarding Authentic Creativity on Spotlight
https://newsroom.snap.com/rewarding-authentic-creativity-on-spotlight
The Three AI Pills | Don’t Worry About the Vase
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/the-three-ai-pills/
We’re proud to announce that Refine has signed partnerships with two leading publishers in economics. Both the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society now use Refine’s AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes. 1/”
https://x.com/RefineDotInk/status/2085212011990761838
And yet they still stink at good long-form fiction.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2083625021868499165
Pretty big break happening in academia between the “AI is banned for reviews” journals and the “AI is mandatory for reviews” journals.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2085430224074760225
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