A federal judge in Utah temporarily blocked social media access laws that leaders said were meant to protect the mental health and personal privacy of children, saying that they are unconstitutional. (AP) NetChoice–a tech industry trade group that represents Meta, Google, and TikTok–is “substantially likely to succeed on its claim [that] the act violates the…Read More
More than 6,000 techies streamed into San Francisco’s Chase Center Tuesday evening. They were not there to join a rager of a concert. Instead, they had paid $50 or more per ticket to see Mark Zuckerberg tape a podcast about artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and how he outmaneuvered the rest of Silicon Valley to keep…Read More
Eisar Lipkovitz, a former Google advertising executive, testified in the U.S. antitrust case against Google, painting a picture of a company where it can be difficult to make change. During Lipkovitz’s testimony, he expressed faults with Google’s advertising products, calling the ad-serving team “lazy and slow” and noting how the entire ads operation could be…Read More
Online platforms have overtaken TV channels as the most popular sources for news in the U.K., according to figures described as a “generational shift” in viewing habits. (The Guardian) Over the past year, the percentage of people using online sources for news grew from 68% to 71%, while social media also saw a rise from…Read More
A company that owns several newspapers in Hawaii is using artificial-intelligence-generated newscasters to create video news segments against the wishes of its unionized journalists, who say the newspaper’s owners are replacing journalists with AI and described the practice as “digital colonialism.” (404 Media)Read More
In Fubo’s antitrust lawsuit against Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, the pay TV operator told a federal judge that it plans to bring to light sensitive details of carriage negotiations by the media giants over many years. (Deadline)Read More
Despite Latin people making up nearly 20% of the country, they are still underrepresented in several types of media–and it’s a major business loss. (THR)Read More
Last month, Google and California struck a groundbreaking, controversial deal to funnel almost $250 million into the state’s journalism over five years (while shoehorning in … an AI accelerator), sidestepping a more sweeping effort to force Google and Meta to pay news publishers. But will any of this funding be accessible to the smallest newsrooms,…Read More
A group of North American financiers led by Dovid Ofune, a low-profile, British-born conservative publisher, has emerged as a serious bidder for U.K. publication The Telegraph, according to two people with knowledge of the bid. (Semafor)Read More
That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will.
The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.
