An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on once-popular domains, and claims to have ~12 human editors
Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 remote contractors in the past six months, 60% for data labeling and 40% programmers to teach its models software engineering tasks
many humans — are building AI tools. They are not magical or simply the product of Silicon Valley elites https://www.semafor.com/... https://twitter.com/... @martinsfp : Generative...
An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy
Last week the German Bundeskartellamt ("Federal Cartel Office") announced in a press release:
How Substack is trying to balance the constraints of its own ideology of putting authors and readers first with its commitment to growth via its new mobile app
In the Spring of 2018 I got invited by the CEO of Substack to come to Toronto for a couple days to hang out with the whole team … Tweets: @nbashaw , @shortformernie , @navalang , @...
Twitter says it will retire Fleets, its Stories-like service, on August 3 after low adoption
A fleeting moment for Fleets — Say goodbye to Fleets, the row of fullscreen tweets at the top of the Twitter timeline that expire after 24 hours. The ephemeral tweet format is s...
Netflix hires ex-Facebook and EA exec Mike Verdu as VP of game development; source: Netflix plans to offer games as a new programming genre within the next year
Netflix Inc., marking its first big move beyond TV shows and films, is planning an expansion into video games and has hired …
Current and former staff say much of Amazon's struggles in gaming rest with the leadership of its gaming division, which reportedly has a budget of $500M/year
Bloomberg :
Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal
I met Bastian Lehman, CEO and co-founder … Kari Astillero / Micky : Uber confirms $2.65 billion all-stock purchase of Postmates Bhumika Khatri / Inc42 Media : Daily Tech Briefing: ...
Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal
- Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock. — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove Trump's post on Minnesota protests to “enable as much expression as possible”, says it doesn't violate its policies
“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post — Facebook will not remove …
Profile of Josh Zimmerman, a life coach for influencers, who says his clients' careers have become more consuming, uncertain, and scrutinized during COVID-19
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times : Tweets: @ashkan , @thecreatorcoach , @faris , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz Tw...
Profile of Josh Zimmerman, a life coach for influencers, who says his clients' careers have become more consuming, uncertain, and scrutinized during COVID-19
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times : Tweets: @thecreatorcoach , @faris , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz Tweets: Josh...
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it
David McCabe / New York Times : Tweets: @edbott , @david_boaz , @mchui , @nxthompson , @riana_crypto , @ktummarello , @nytimesbusiness , @mathewi , @annemariebridy , @nytimesbusin...