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Marty Swant

@martyswant
67 posts
2025-10-09
Very long line for ⁦⁦@claudeai⁩'s “brand residence” pop-up at ⁦⁦@AirMailWeekly⁩'s store in the west village...Wraps around the block! Willoughby's here patiently waiting for an @AnthropicAI⁩ thinking cap. 🐶🤖 [image]
2025-10-09 View on X
Adweek

Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions

available while supplies last.) [image] @signulll : anthropic has ppl lining up for a... hat & coffee right now. the only other time i've seen lines like this for a tech company wa...

2025-05-06
Shortly before midnight, @TheJusticeDept and @Google officially filed their remedies proposals in the adtech antitrust trial. DOJ is asking for a major structural reset: AdX and DFP sell-offs, a 10-year ad exchange ban, open-source auction logic, and putting 50% of net revenues
2025-05-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US v. Google: the DOJ says in a May 5 filing that Google should sell its AdX business and DFP ad platform; Google says divestiture isn't warranted or feasible

Wall Street Journal :

2025-03-22
A new @perplexity_ai blog post outlines a “vision for rebuilding TikTok in America,” featuring a mix of AI search, short-form video and more transparency (i.e. an open-source “For You” algorithm. Seems like it's part of Perplexity's big pitch to merge with TikTok. [image]
2025-03-22 View on X
The Verge

Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”

But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape it...

@perplexity_ai The blog post also touts Perplexity's “advanced AI infrastructure” powered by @nvidia's newly announced open-source Dynamo software released Tuesday at #GTC25. On stage, Nvidia's CEO even gave Perplexity a shout-out as one of his “favorite partners.” https://www.perplexity.ai/...
2025-03-22 View on X
The Verge

Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”

But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape it...

2025-03-20
Two @sama quotes I think about often from the Senate Judiciary Committee's AI hearing in 2023: The 1st answer is when @ossoff expressed concern about tech companies maximizing engagement. The 2nd is when @CoryBooker asked if OpenAI would ever consider ads. [image]
2025-03-20 View on X
Stratechery

Q&A with Sam Altman on the path to OpenAI, its origin story, building a consumer tech company, ads, competition, hallucinations, regulation, and the AI outlook

This Stratechery interview is technically another installment of the Stratechery Founder series; OpenAI is a startup …

2025-01-22
Reminder: OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman — whose company is currently in a legal battle with Elon Musk — recently donated $1 million to Trump's 2025 inauguration fund.  —  Oracle also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund.  (So did other tech giants like Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon & Microsoft.) …
2025-01-22 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle unveil The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B over the next four years

OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.

2025-01-15
NYT's lawyer Ian Crosby said LLM outputs are just “the expression of the words and facts, not the underlying facts in the words and the models.” “They're not next-generation search engines, but answer engines,” Crosby said, adding that they're not substitutional.
2025-01-15 View on X
Courthouse News Service

In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims

I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking.  Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...

Judge: What's the injury? Lieberman: “You're leaving people open for massive copyright infringement without the ability to trace it...It's like it causes the alarm system in your house to go down.”
2025-01-15 View on X
Courthouse News Service

In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims

I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking.  Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...

Lieberman: When copyright management information (CMI) is retracted, outputs will be “either the verbatim language or a summary without the attribution of the new york times or the daily news.”
2025-01-15 View on X
Courthouse News Service

In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims

I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking.  Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...

Judge just asked OpenAI's lawyer if GPT models have NYT content in its database. Lawyer said not doesn't, but then clarified it doesn't have a database but instead relies on weights. I wonder how NYT's lawyers will respond to that.
2025-01-15 View on X
Courthouse News Service

In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims

I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking.  Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...

Just joined the NYT v OpenAI oral arguments. Every time someone joins the audio feed, it announces the person w/ each person's voice & name...Awkward and distracting!
2025-01-15 View on X
Courthouse News Service

In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims

I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking.  Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about ...

2024-11-28
Neat seeing one of my stories cited by @Google in the subpoena it sent @perplexity_ai as part of discovery in the search antitrust remedies trial. Just spotted this yesterday while reporting on the subpoenas sent to Perplexity, @OpenAI & @Microsoft. [image]
2024-11-28 View on X
Digiday

US filing: Google sent subpoenas in October 2024 to OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft for the remedies part of the US v. Google search antitrust trial

Marty Swant / Digiday :

2024-11-05
Meta is extending its ban on political new ads for days after #Election2024, reports @sarafischer. It'll now stay in place for days after polls close instead of ending tomorrow night. But a key thing to watch is whether Meta properly enforces the ban. https://www.axios.com/...
2024-11-05 View on X
CNBC

Meta informs ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after the polls close

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :

2024-11-04
While Google has avoided letting @GeminiApp answer political questions, @perplexity_ai has a new “Election Information Hub” below the main prompt window. [image]
2024-11-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Perplexity launches a dedicated hub for the US general election, including ballot measures and voting results, while rivals like OpenAI have been more cautious

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, might hallucinate from time to time.  But the company wants to show that it's trustworthy enough …

2024-09-09
Lots of great thoughts/lines in this @guardian story about the irony of writers improving LLM-powered chatbots. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... [image]
2024-09-09 View on X
The Guardian

A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions

Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies.  The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall...

2024-07-24
On today's $GOOGL Q2 earnings call, here's what @sundarpichai said when an analyst asked about @Google's announcing it won't deprecate third-party cookies: [image]
2024-07-24 View on X
Alphabet

Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $84.7B, net income up 29% YoY to $23.6B, Search revenue of $48.5B, up from $42.6B YoY, headcount down 1% to 179,582

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

2024-07-20
Reviewing the court docs, it's also interesting Oracle announced its plans to exit the ad-tech biz just weeks *after* agreeing to modify its business practices as part of the settlement. [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
Reuters

Oracle agrees to pay $115M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties

Oracle (ORCL.N) agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company …

2024-07-13
Yesterday, @SenatorCantwell, @MarshaBlackburn and @SenatorHeinrich introduced the COPIED Act that would create new federal transparency standards for generative AI. Here's my @Digiday story about the bill & yesterday's committee hearing on AI & privacy. https://digiday.com/...
2024-07-13 View on X
TechCrunch

Three US senators introduce the COPIED Act, which aims to give journalists, songwriters, and artists tools to fight AI models using their work without consent

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :

2024-04-15
I've been wanting someone to make an audio-focused app for years! Excited to try out Airchat and equally excited to see @anthonyha's byline back at @TechCrunch!
2024-04-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; the app is invite-only

2024-04-14
I've been wanting someone to make an audio-focused app for years! Excited to try out Airchat and equally excited to see @anthonyha's byline back at @TechCrunch!
2024-04-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Airchat, Naval Ravikant's social media app built around audio recordings, which the app transcribes, relaunches on iOS and Android; it is currently invite-only

Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.”  —  A previous version of Airchat was released last year …