Welcome back to Soundbite. Today, I’m coming at you from London where I’m attending the Podcast Show, a relatively new addition to the conference scene that has quickly become a must-attend event for executives from the US, Europe and...
On May 6, 2024, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced via livestream. This year, four of the major category winners represented small nonprofit newsrooms. On Twitter, Steven Waldman — founder and president of Rebuild Local News — astutely observed:...
TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands. The tools will help marketers write scripts, produce...
In the past few weeks, News Corp, the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals with OpenAI, while Axel Springer and Informa teamed up with Microsoft.
Origen: Licensing deals, litigation raise raft of...
The family of Michael Schumacher have won their legal action against the publisher of a magazine that printed an artificial intelligence-generated interview with the multiple Formula One champion.The German celebrity magazine Die Aktuelle promoted on its cover in April...
Wall Street Journal owner News Corp NWSA 0.58%increase; green up pointing triangle struck a major content-licensing pact with the generative artificial-intelligence company OpenAI, aiming to cash in on a technology that promises to have a profound impact on the...
If you’re looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley’s latest gold rush, look no further than OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson debacle. The story, according to Johansson’s lawyers, goes like this: Nine months ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman approached...
“Where other people weren’t, that’s where we wanted to be,” says Duncan Greive, founder of the award-winning New Zealand digital-native publication called The Spinoff, famously known for its smart sassy tone and treatment of politics, pop culture and social...
Before reading Rachel Aviv’s most recent piece for The New Yorker, I might have described the Lucy Letby case as well-covered.In August 2023, the former neonatal nurse became only the fourth woman in U.K. history to receive a whole-life...
Last week Google introduced a radical shake-up of search that presents users with AI-generated answers to their queries. Now the company says it will soon start including ads inside those AI Overviews, as the automatic answers are called.Google on...
