Can Puck reinvent news for the influencer age?
… I do like the idea that your approach to the Twitter acquisition by Elon Musk was to compare it to Cold War, bipolar power dynamics. …
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The future of Google is a search box that does everything
… Down the line, you’ll be able to generate other media as well; the family of models is meant to be able to “create anything.” I could go on; there was a lot announced at I/O. …
How Iran out-shitposted the White House
… The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “operates or funds at least 50 production houses,” and the most significant ones in this moment are the little ones, “small, fast, and built for the internet, made by a new generation coming to power in Iran as American-Israeli bombs kill off the elder leaders … …
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
… It was like a great digital media moment that I will never forget. It had totemic power in the media ecosystem at that time. …
With Saros, Housemarque makes a case for doing next-gen games differently
… I think that’s why we then get a lot more leeway to fall in love with the hardware as much as we do.” Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj 1CzKUR4w In Saros, the player assumes the role of Arjun Devraj performed by actor Rahul Kohli , a member of a team sent to the planet Carcosa to investigat… …
Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
… And so those are all dynamics. People are going to a wider array of information, and there are more people producing information than ever before. That pie is growing. All these dynamics are happening. …
AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi
… When they’ve transformed into media partners, this changes that equation significantly. This is the whole retail media conversation. “Are they a media partner or are they our retail partner?” Yeah. …
Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
… But talking to Copilot today makes powerful computers seem incompetent. …
Showrunner wants to turn you into a happy little content prompter for the ‘Netflix of AI’
… Throughout our conversation, Saatchi was insistent about Showrunner being a good thing and a revolutionary tool designed to give users a new way of engaging with media. …
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
… You can go back and read headline after headline to see his increasingly dire warnings about what’s happened to life on the internet, from the concentration of power in Big Tech platforms to the detrimental effects of social media. …