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The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
21 Nov

The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired

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James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated.Employee retention is always a bit of a problem at local newspapers, and The Garden Island newspaper on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is no exception. Many reporters—usually mainland transplants like myself—would stick around for just a couple years before moving on, and some only lasted months.After a two-month run, James and Rose have joined our ranks, as their broadcast has been discontinued, according to a representative for The Garden Island’s parent company, Oahu Publications (OPI). The…
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OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished
08 Nov

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

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Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the Center for Investigative Reporting in a copyright infringement case against both OpenAI and Microsoft, says he is “confident that these kinds of DMCA claims are permitted under the Constitution.”Not all experts agree. “These claims make no sense and should all be dismissed, so I am not surprised by this ruling,” says Matthew Sag, a professor of law and artificial intelligence at Emory University. He believes the publishers failed to prove that OpenAI broke the law in part because they did…
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The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down
07 Oct

The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down

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It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between AI companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news outlets at the rate they once were.The generative AI boom sparked a gold rush for data—and a subsequent data-protection rush (for most news websites, anyway) in which publishers sought to block AI crawlers and prevent their work from becoming training data without consent. When Apple debuted a new AI agent this summer, for example, a slew of top news outlets swiftly opted out of Apple’s…
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The Power Struggle That Imploded Megan Ellison’s Video Game Unit
27 Sep

The Power Struggle That Imploded Megan Ellison’s Video Game Unit

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In February, Nathan Gary, the longtime leader of the indie video-game publisher Annapurna Interactive, was in Las Vegas for the annual DICE convention, schmoozing with old colleagues and catching up on the latest developments in gaming. One evening at dinner, Geoff Keighley, a video-game industry personality, approached Gary with an unsettling bit of news. According to people familiar with the conversation, Keighley related that he’d just seen Gary’s boss Megan Ellison — the 38-year-old owner of Annapurna and daughter of billionaire Oracle Corp. Co-Founder Larry Ellison — eating elsewhere in the same restaurant with one of Gary’s former colleagues, a…
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Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI
20 Aug

Condé Nast Signs Deal With OpenAI

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Condé Nast and OpenAI have struck a multi-year deal that will allow the AI giant to use content from the media giant’s roster of properties—which includes the New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and, yes, WIRED. The deal will allow OpenAI to surface stories from these outlets in both ChatGPT and the new SearchGPT prototype.“It’s crucial that we meet audiences where they are and embrace new technologies while also ensuring proper attribution and compensation for use of our intellectual property,” Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch wrote in a company-wide email. Lynch pointed to ongoing turmoil within the publishing industry…
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Fox-Disney Sports Service Blocked by Judge in Win for Fubo TV
16 Aug

Fox-Disney Sports Service Blocked by Judge in Win for Fubo TV

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Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and Walt Disney Co. were blocked by a judge from launching their streaming sports service one week before its rollout, taking a blow from their smaller rival FuboTV Inc.US District Judge Margaret Garnett on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the $42.99-a-month service, Venu Sports, from going forward while Fubo’s lawsuit against the three companies proceeds. Source link lol
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Edgar Bronfman to Prepare an Offer for Paramount Global
15 Aug

Edgar Bronfman to Prepare an Offer for Paramount Global

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Seagram Co. heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. is close to making an offer for Paramount Global that would compete with an accepted bid from Skydance Media, according to people familiar with his plans.Bronfman is considering an offer for National Amusements, the Redstone family company that controls Paramount, as well as an investment in Paramount itself, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing plans that aren’t public. The structure is still being worked on. Source link lol
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Mercedes, BMW Reveal Battery Makers Amid Fire Fears in Korea
13 Aug

Mercedes, BMW Reveal Battery Makers Amid Fire Fears in Korea

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The South Korean units of Mercedes-Benz Group AG and BMW AG disclosed the names of the companies that supply their electric-vehicle batteries for the first time after an EV explosion in the country prompted a nationwide safety investigation. The German carmakers revealed the battery suppliers for their EV models Tuesday on their websites, after Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. shared the names of their battery makers in recent days. At a meeting Tuesday, the government said it planned to advise all EV makers to voluntarily disclose the names of battery suppliers, and offer free inspections to owners. Source link…
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