Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, did not respond to our request to discuss his departure from the publication he founded. In spite of that, it is fair to say that AI is about to transform the top of The New Stack.     *** Take a look at the web site of Insight Partners, the private-equity…

Superb reporting from Business Insider on what comes after Google Search. All the experts quizzed. The gist: these technologies and techniques are borderline mythical at this point.

In the latest installment of Sound Thinking...David Strom, a well-known IT reporter and security expert, discusses the threat of AI tricking security systems and luring them to catastrophe. What will that mean to editors? When will it happen? It's not an if, it's a when.

Good vision here from Jay Lauf. Interestingly, Jay suggests that B2B publishing will become a service business to B2B pros, providing value directly to individuals and organizations. Static content is dying very quickly. This is the point of the analysis from this great media organization.

America can't read anymore. The good news: advertisers can advertise against different kinds of emotion in the copy. So even if the numbers of readers drop, there are more ways to attract ads. So perhaps the bad news will get cancelled out by the good. Sam Whitmore and David Strom discuss.

The WSJ has the story.

An avalanche of fake news sites threatens the viability of the web itself. You may need a subscription to read this article, but this publication is definitely worth the money for a subscription.

When Axios prompted ChatGPT for basic background research on Wealthfront's confidential IPO filing last week, the bot confidently detailed a Wealthfront investor deck. The problem? It appears to be entirely made up.

Media analyst Brian Morrissey predicts that many smaller trade publishers and consumer publishers may one day just ditch readers altogether and simply publish to LLMs under contract and make their money that way. It's a lot simpler than trying to sell ads to a dwindling reader base.

From Crunchbase News: Neuralink’s recent $650 million raise is by far the largest for a neural interface startup on record, but comes as funding to neuroscience startups overall is set to rise sharply this year. All told, funding to the broader category of neuroscience startups totaled $896…

From the excellent The Rundown AI newsletter: The future of video content creation is increasingly looking camera-less — with this latest round of upgrades taking avatars from more robotic talking heads to full-fledged actors with more granular control over motion and expressiveness. Time to get a…

Shameful. From a May 23 article on the MLB site: “With the rise of sports gambling, [the threats have] gotten a lot worse,” said [Red Sox reliever] Liam Hendriks. “...whether it be Venmo requests, whether it be people telling you in their comments, ‘Hey, you blew my parlay. Go [expletive]…

This is majorly tl;dr, but recent research from FT Strategies and Reuters empirically uncovers every trend there is, when it comes to the health of the media business. In short, "the media" is barely breakeven, here and around the world. AI search may prove devastating.

Dr. Diane Hamilton has posted 37 articles on Forbes's CHRO Network page since Dec. 1. She has an active LinkedIn profile, which advertises a book she wrote. But her X feed and her personal web page both seem to be down. The Dr. happens to be founder and CEO of Tonerra, a company that specializes in…