Condé Nast CEO Tells Senate That Gen AI Could Ruin The Publishing Business
Says Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch: “Big tech companies understand that time is on their side, that litigation is slow, and, for many publishers, prohibitively
Says Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch: “Big tech companies understand that time is on their side, that litigation is slow, and, for many publishers, prohibitively
Nominations are open until Feb. 5. It’s a list of “The Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups.”
The following is a “conversation” between SWMS and GPT-4 regarding recent work from TechCrunch senior reporter Kyle Wiggers. It has been edited for length and clarity, as we do our Q&As with humans.
Ever go to Techmeme and wonder which article is “the best” on a given topic? Generative AI can help answer that question. We looked at news published this week from ZDNet, TechCrunch and The Verge…
When Google Bard was asked whether it could deliver a list of trade reporters along with their email addresses, it responded, “I’m a language model
The pitch-writing tool Storypitch.ai writes “founder story” PR pitches and they permit one free sample. Ours was about a fictional flying golf bag that uses
AI-minded PR pros want Tier 1 coverage. No trend is hotter, so why not? In this week’s SWMS deep-dive, we found 31 articles that could qualify as a product story or startup profile. Sounds like quite a bit of inventory.
Legendary journalist Louise Story reveals how the smartest edit shops are using AI. Here come the flexicles.
It is now called AI Time To Impact, and if you care about what’s real in AI and when we need to care about it,
It’s perhaps a bit surprising that our 13 “AI in healthcare” targets are more or less the usual suspects in healthcare edit. Most trades can’t afford to hire additional reporters just to cover the AI aspects of the healthcare beat.
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… and it has no problem disclosing how. Reporters still run the joint, but they are getting AI assistance.
The Atlantic’s Karen Hao, in conjunction with the Pulitzer Center, is designing a course in AI for journalists. Classes begin next month. Details here. Might be something to alert your friendlies about. Karen hopes to help train 1,000 journalists in AI over the next two years.
Joshua Topolsky‘s edit project for Robinhood is optimized for mobile but you can peruse it here. The design seems crazy. Context from Axios’s Sara Fischer here.
‘The Prompt” is not out yet, but you can sign up for it here.
That’s the strategy as expressed to NYT’s Katie Robertson by Axios CEO Jim VandeHei. First up: Eleanor Hawkins, Sara Fischer and Dan Primack.
Forbes’s reputation is taking a hit because of the ad scandal unearthed this month by the WSJ. Some advertisers have stopped spending with Forbes, at least temporarily. Here’s the latest from Digiday [subscription required].