Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product, I’ll be reading from this week’s newsletter on two items:

* A critical exploration of this week’s announcements from OpenAI and Google, and why I think the new Google search stuff sucks.

* Looking at The New Yorker’s Lucy Letby story as a story about media in the U.S. and the U.K.

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