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Quentin Hardy Interviews Eric Savitz
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
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
Union for Mashable, PC Mag and Lifehacker Wins Protection Against Gen AI
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
Gen AI: The Big Fizzle?
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
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Three free one-month subs are available from SWMS, no catches or gimmicks. Get in touch for details. BT is among the best tech newsletters out
Bloomberg Businessweek Goes Monthly
Now a misnomer, the Businessweek name will stick around for a while longer. Bloomberg is investing big in paper stock and photography. It’ll be a
Semafor Goes AI Crazy
Fourteen of 19 tech stories in the Semafor technology section are about AI. Two of the five outliers were about TikTok’s potential sale. Semafor sells
OpenAI To Pay News Corp. $250M Over Five Years
This deal leaves the NYT in the courtroom pretty much all by itself. The coming climbdown will fascinate comms pros, who will go to school
Microsoft Copilot Inserts Ad In Results
That didn’t take long. This is how AI is going to be monetized — ad results blended with the other results. “Church-state” has no precedent
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Quentin Hardy Interviews Eric Savitz
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
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
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?
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.
Want A Free 1-Month Sub to Big Technology from Alex Kantrowitz?
Three free one-month subs are available from SWMS, no catches or gimmicks. Get in touch for details. BT is among the best tech newsletters out there.