This weekend, ESPN began publishing AI-generated recaps of women’s soccer games, with more sports to come. It’s using Microsoft AI to write each story, with humans only involved in reviewing each recap for “quality and accuracy.” ESPN says these...
We have talked about news avoidance and news burnout for years, and the picture you get 'overall' is that about 30% to 40% of the public avoid the news. But what if I told you that it's much more...
Asheville Watchdog hosted a special free public event on Thursday, Sept. 5. Watchdog political reporter Tom Fiedler interviewed former Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron at A-B Tech in front of an audience.Baron and Fiedler discussed Bezos’s purchase of...
Now that was an interesting debate.Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump clashed for two hours Tuesday night in a presidential debate that, incredibly, might have as much impact as the first presidential debate of this election...
The financial news publisher The Wall Street Journal is offering advertisers a performance guarantee, timed to the upcoming U.S. presidential election, to dissuade them from pausing their ad campaigns during the period.
Origen: The WSJ Offers Advertisers an Election Performance...
Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hottest AI companies in the industry.Anthropic was started in 2021 by former OpenAI executives and researchers who set out to build a more...
For several hours a week, I write for a technology company worth billions of dollars. Alongside me are published novelists, rising academics and several other freelance journalists. The workload is flexible, the pay better than we are used to,...
Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible will begin inviting a select group of US-based audiobook narrators to train artificial intelligence on their voices, the clones of which can then be used to make audiobook recordings. The effort, which kicks off this week,...
The Washington Post is trying to fix one of its biggest problems: an outdated homepage loathed by its own staff.The facelift is a key facet of Post publisher and chief executive Will Lewis’s plan to turn around the publication’s fortunes on behalf of owner Jeff Bezos This year the...
Many newsletters were created during the pandemic to help readers get access to information about COVID-19. Some have since fizzled, and others have stuck around, but few have had the success of The News — a small initiative in...
