Can an AI 'understand' what good writing is?

Claude 4 may have unlocked its latent editing abilities. Plus fallout from Google AI Mode and Politico's newsroom pushes back on unchecked robots.

If you've been online at all this past week, you've certainly seen one of the many video compilations of Google Veo videos, with multiple realistic-looking people doing or saying absurd things, all of it generated from simple text prompts. The new video model is one of the flashier announcements from the past few weeks, and illustrative of just how fast…