>> April 4, 2024

Gen AI Is Over, Eh?

April 4, 2024 2:32 pm

Substack author and Financial Times contributor Gary Marcus stops short of saying Gen AI is over, but does posit that the “bubble” could burst in

“Listen!” Says The NYT

April 4, 2024 7:20 am

The NYT soon will add an automated voice to the majority of its articles, reports Axios. When that day comes, can we really call the

Why Is Axios Doing So Well?

July 26, 2024

Stories like this might be a reason.

Quentin Hardy Interviews Eric Savitz

July 23, 2024

Former NYT reporter and Google Cloud EIC Quentin Hardy also interviewed Eric Savitz about his career and move to GM. Good reading.

27 B2B Newsletters, All In One Place

July 23, 2024

The UK-based newsletter company called Trending Now uses AI to scrape what’s trending across 27 areas of B2B. Press Gazette has additional detail. The company employs ten, none of whom are journalists (by traditional definition).

Union for Mashable, PC Mag and Lifehacker Wins Protection Against Gen AI

July 18, 2024

The full union membership needs to ratify it on July 24, but it looks like no editors can be laid off or suffer a salary cut if the publication goes big in its use of generative AI. More detail here from Neiman.

Gen AI: The Big Fizzle?

July 10, 2024

Goldman Sachs took 32 pages to say pretty much that. The media business may turn out to be an outlier, an industry perfectly suited to synthetic, multilingual words, sounds and images at scale. As for everyone else, well, the global consultancies will learn the truth first because they have rushed to monetize Gen AI — they aren’t yet succeeding.

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