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Don’t know what to say on a job interview, or a date? In a recent hackathon, Stanford researchers used AR glasses, voice recognition and ChatGPT
Don’t know what to say on a job interview, or a date? In a recent hackathon, Stanford researchers used AR glasses, voice recognition and ChatGPT
The Verge’s Mia Sato delivers a scoop on layoffs at CNET (perhaps 10% of staff) and Connie Guglielmo‘s move from EIC to editor-at-large and senior
Newly promoted Madhumita Murgia oversees AI coverage in the FT, across all disciplines. NiemanLab reveals her priorities in this Feb. 27 Q&A. “Good journalism, in
Futurism continues with its exclusive reporting. Red Ventures has instituted new procedures and has committed to generative AI no matter the cost. All of publishing
The sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld speculates that prospective authors are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word
Eric Newcomer is hosting a by-invitation-only AI summit Mar. 30 in San Francisco. Only 200 attendees. Here are the details.
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CNET insiders are leaking, helping Mia Sato deliver this powerful story, which alleges that CNET buckles to advertisers, and also, that editors knew about the
Seemingly against all odds, two experienced entrepreneurs are launching Meteor, a publication about how AI, blockchain and Web3 technologies will transform just about all things digital.
Experienced B2B reporters often can’t help turning news stories into analysis, where context and POV shroud the actual news. Not so with TechTarget news writer Esther Ajao, now finishing her first year at SearchEnterpriseAI.
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Another scoop from Sara Fischer at Axios: Refinery29 is “taking over” B2C event brand Beautycon, among the most successful F2F events in the beauty space. The idea is to augment the R29 brand and make the title less vulnerable to a weak advertising market.
It’s dangerous to publish content that antagonizes the powerful.
Nic will stay on as editor-at-large.
That BI announced no successor implies that this situation has a life of its own, and is not under Axel Springer’s full control.
Quoted by the UK-based Press Gazette, News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson said, “Courtship is preferable to courtrooms – we are wooing not suing. But let’s be clear, in my view those who are repurposing our content without approval are stealing.”
The Gen AI titans are currently paying publishers between $1M and $5M a year to train their LLMs on publishers’ content, the Press Gazette reports.
While the NYT pursues its suit against OpenAI, the Financial Times has chosen to license its content to help OpenAI train current and future LLMs. The NYT seems to be on the wrong side of this issue, with the Associated Press and Axel Springer also choosing to see OpenAI as a source of income, rather than an enemy.
Here’s the opposing view, from Press Gazette’s Dominic Young, who advises publishers to play a game of chicken with OpenAI and its LLM competitors.
… 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.