The Era of ‘Camera-less’ Video
June 4, 2025
9:57 am
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
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Cheat Sheet: Tier 2 Opportunities in AI
February 11, 2025
4:41 am
A subscriber recently asked for a POV on where the low-hanging fruit was in the world of AI coverage. As subjective as that might be, it’s still worth trying. Who might you suggest?
Key Editorial Union Stands Up To AI
January 31, 2025
10:36 am
Unionized writers have secured new protections governing the use of generative AI in member newsrooms, reports the Hollywood Reporter. The union — Writers Guild of
TechCrunch Calls Out Quartz For Its Crummy AI Stories
January 29, 2025
5:45 am
TC’s Rebecca Bellan finds fault with Quartz for how poorly its AI rewrote a recent story of hers. Quartz doesn’t attempt to hide its use
Cheat Sheet: Substack AI Newsletters
January 23, 2025
5:44 am
Here’s an updated cheat sheet with 11 Substack newsletters focused on AI. The selection comprises a combo of analysis-driven work from experts, and newsletters that blend original work with ICYMI links to “AI news of the week.”
The Atlantic: Deconstructed Through AI and Ready to Pitch
January 10, 2025
8:42 am
Pitching The Atlantic has never been easy. PR pros always know what trade editors care about. Not so with a highly curated publication such as The Atlantic, still driven by the boundary-free judgment of human storytellers.
Cheat Sheet: Targets Who Cover AI-Powered Search
December 18, 2024
3:26 pm
Back in the late 1980s, Computerworld employed an Internet reporter. That’s right — one reporter to cover every aspect of the Internet. That’s the way it became with the AI beat.
The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer
November 13, 2024
4:09 pm
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy
Gen AI Sizes Up Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle
November 12, 2024
9:14 am
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How NYT Uses Gen AI
November 7, 2024
9:32 am
Ars Technica recently filed this revealing piece on how the NYT uses gen AI to analyze gargantuan transcripts, ones that would overwhelm mere mortals. The
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The SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards: You Can Apply Now
June 22, 2025
Here are the details — Choose from 5 categories and 30+ subcategories. The awards are being promoted by Bhava Communications, an SWMS subscriber.
Check Out the LinkedIn Profile of TechCrunch’s Publisher
June 22, 2025
The guy also is the full-time “chairman” of Bally and Sassoon. On top of that, he’s also chairman of Foundry and 13 other companies. Well, 14, if you count his own private equity firm. How much time will he put into TC, understanding the subtleties of tech edit?
Big Valley Marketing’s Podcast: Julie Bort
June 19, 2025
Julie opens up to host Dave Reddy.. it’s a good listen. BVM is a SWMS subscriber.
When Publishers Ditch Readers Altogether…
June 15, 2025
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.
Axios is Hiring…
June 7, 2025
Axios is hiring a senior tech reporter to cover AI. How long will it take for the “laid-off” to land on their feet? It is already happening.
Next Big Thing: BrainTech
June 5, 2025
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 million last year and is on track to reach $1.4 billion in 2025.