John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Recall that the right wants to ban AI legislation *at the state level*. They're cashing in on the mis/dis information AND from the tech flooding us with it. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg... Stefan...
Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media
For a crucial decade in print media's transition to the internet, HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones was a boon in traffic... for everyone.
Netflix's second ever livestream hit technical issues, leading to a 75+ minute delay and the company taping the Love is Blind reunion episode for later viewing
Show Will Now Air On-Demand Ben Lyons / Gamereactor UK : Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie headline Netflix's All The Light We Cannot See Amanda Hoover / Wired : The ‘Love Is Blind’ Fiasco Proves Netflix H...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content
until Netflix launched “House of Cards” and set off a rivalry that would define Hollywood's next decade https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Gloria Cheung / @gloriacheunghy : If you are fed up with $...
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content
Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor. — It was December 2010. Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @jonnyrmcfarlane , @alisterbull1 , @gloriacheunghy , @chris_skinner , and @mymy...
HBO and HBO Max receive 140 Emmy nominations, while Netflix gets 105, Hulu 58, Apple TV+ 52, Disney+ 34, Amazon 30, and broadcast network TV a new low of 86
Apple, anti-gun violence messages dominate category Washington Post : Emmy nominations 2022: ‘Succession’ earns most nods; ‘Squid Game’ makes history Tweets: Atima Omara / @atima_omara : A very niche ...
Twitter confirms it quietly “limit[ed] the visibility” of promotional tweets via its ad platform about HBO documentary Q: Into the Storm in 2021
Twitter told the director of “Q: Into the Storm” it had “made the decision not to allow promotion of this documentary” when he tried to advertise the film. Tweets: @joshuaerlich , @dellcam , @wexler ,...
Interviews and documents reveal Wirecard's desperate effort to cover up fraud, hoodwink its auditors, and a plan to take over Deutsche Bank in its final months
Executives at the German payments group hatched a plan to buy Deutsche Bank while desperately trying to cover their tracks Tweets: @lionelbarber , @aallan , @sub8u , @speraltalisboa , @ms_zamandlovu ,...
Ahead of Prime Day, HBO's Last Week Tonight does a segment on workers' conditions at warehouses; Amazon's SVP of operations tweets that the show is “insulting”
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