We're All Set: Final Details for PfP✨London
The last pieces have been locked in for our next in-person event in London.
Firstly, we would like to announce or last speaker: Jeremiah Lee from the Interledger Foundation who will be discussing developments in web payments.
Jeremiah Lee is a program officer for the Interledger Foundation’s Grant for the Web. Prior to joining the foundation, he participated in its ambassadorship program by researching the creator economy and prototyping support for the Open Payments protocol and proposed Web Monetization standard in ActivityPub clients and servers. He grew up under the California sun, but now calls Stockholm home.
Learn more about all of our speakers on the PfP✨ London event page
Second, we have a venue! A special thank you to Newspeak House for hosting the event.
As always, all event info is available on the PfP✨ London event page.
PfP Team
Sign up for the event there or directly on Luma:
There are just a few spots left for the all-day workshop on the next day, so get your applications in for that:
Also keep an eye out on our social media for more timely updates and as we feature each one of our speakers.
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There will be one more newsletter before we see you in London. Looking forward to meeting many of you in person! 👋
💬 Ideas from elsewhere
A Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report shows some publisher speculation on AI trends in 2026, including Google traffic, taking Big AI money, the threat of creators, and where publishers are putting their efforts in 2026 (see chart below). Link →
There is a LOT in that Reuters report, but here is one highlight from Chartbeat showing Google search traffic to publishers globally dropped by -33% (-17% in Europe and -38% in the US). Link →
The IAB Tech Lab is extending OpenRTB and AdCOM with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) in a bid to allow for "agentic buying and selling" without actually updating online ad infrastructure. Link →
Reddit is getting in on AI ads too. Link →
Using AI is like 'confessing into a “data lake.”' Moxie Marlinspike of Signal protocol fame has built a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) to secure conversations with LLMs. The app is called Confer and is currently a very basic OpenWebUI implementation, there is no public model card yet, so early days. Link →
Mark Surman and Suba Vasudevan have a short discussion about how Mozilla is using its portfolio of companies towards building open source trustworthy AI, fighting against the closed silos of the hyperscalers… and also the trade-offs. Video →
Simon Willison's year end report on the year in LLMs in 2025 has been passed around a lot. It is very informative. Link →
Also check out Simon's appearance on the Oxide and Friends podcast for their annual predictions episode where he speculates on some interesting problems like solving sandboxing, amongst other predictions from the rest of the Oxide crew. Link →
AI-assisted software development is seeing a lot of innovation in UX design. But Anthropic is having none of that by blocking API access for third-party coding apps like OpenCode. Remember the early days of Twitter when there was a plethora of third-party apps with all sorts of novel features? Then Twitter cut off API access because it wanted all the ad revenue? Everything in the AI world is being speedrun isn't it? 😏 Link →
And speaking of Claude Code, Florent Daudens gives a tutorial on how he uses Claude Code for journalism with examples of monitoring news, prepping for an interview, generating the "publication package" for pushing your piece to multiple channels like various social media accounts. Link →
This has been a very AI heavy edition of the PfP✨ Newsletter, but here is one good news piece in Open Social for you: Modal Foundation is a public interested technology foundation set up to steward Free our Feeds (a PfP✨ backer), Eurosky, and future initiatives to support open standards and decentralized social tech. Congratulations! Link →
