How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.nytimes.com/.... Does...
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Meta revamping its content moderation systems with Community Notes is good, but Zuckerberg pretending it's about free speech is bad, and the timing is stupid
from the misinformation-about-disinformation dept — When the NY Times declared in September that “Mark Zuckerberg is Done With Politics …
OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models
written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avo...
The lawsuits against tech companies could shape what copyright means for AI, or simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals
The bar for fair use is typically that the new work doesn't compete with the original. … X: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “If the NY Times successfully argues that reading a third party article to hel...
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft relies on a false belief that copyright can limit the right to read and process data
This week the NY Times somehow broke the story of... well, the NY Times suing OpenAI and Microsoft. I wonder who tipped them off.
The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue
community responds Gaurav Girotra / Tech in Asia : NYT files copyright suit against OpenAI, Microsoft Jacob Oliver / CryptoSlate : New York Times sues Microsoft, OpenAI for alleged copyright infringem...
A look at blue-collar influencers, including a trucker, a shepherd, and a fisherman, who have amassed large audiences by posting short videos of their workday
Steven Kurutz / New York Times : X: @gw_gallery and @vondoviak X: Grant Wahlquist / @gw_gallery : Lovely photos by our very own Kate Greene on the cover of the NY Times Sunday Styles tomorrow! https:...
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak
if one big legacy site does it the others will likely follow, but no one wants to be the first to jump. https://www.semafor.com/... Mastodon: Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social : Data strongly ...
Tests show Elon Musk's Twitter removed limits on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin's, with some showing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy
Bans Mastodon and Substack links, unrestricts the Kremlin tweets. — https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ... Lauren Weinstein / @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org : Musk welcomes Russian propaganda back t...