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Mia Sato

@miasato
12 posts
2025-11-13
Google is infusing AI into just about every part of online shopping: browsing for products, calling local stores to ask about inventory (!!), and actually purchasing the item for you.  This is a warning shot to influencers and news orgs doing buying guides:  —  www.theverge.com/news/819431/ ...
2025-11-13 View on X
The Verge

Google launches AI-powered shopping features in the US, including conversational search, side-by-side item comparisons, price tracking, and an agentic checkout

There have never been more options for things to buy.  Google is betting AI is how shoppers will make decisions.

2025-05-30
Update in the Battle of the Beige Amazon influencer lawsuit I wrote about back in November: Alyssa Sheil, alleged copier, has prevailed.  [embedded post]
2025-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products

www.theverge.com/news/676357/ ... Uma Karmarkar / @umakarma : Whew.  This is a damning sentence:  —  “Influencers becoming mirror images of each other is a feature, not a bug, of a...

Wrote a recap of the beige Amazon influencer copyright lawsuit, with new details about some of what came out in the last few months.  Influencer who was accused of copying says that in some cases, metadata proved she had taken her pics and vids before the plaintiff  —  www.theverge.com/news/676357/ ...
2025-05-30 View on X
The Verge

Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products

www.theverge.com/news/676357/ ... Uma Karmarkar / @umakarma : Whew.  This is a damning sentence:  —  “Influencers becoming mirror images of each other is a feature, not a bug, of a...

2025-01-21
As journalists we have to walk a fine line, and sensitive stories often need to pass internal legal reviews before publication.  I like how Wired handled this — the headline doesn't mince words and actually shows you how Musk's salute is being received by Nazis  —  www.wired.com/story/neo-na... …
2025-01-21 View on X
Gizmodo

During a speech after Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes”; Musk posted a three-minute video of his speech to X

The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes …

2025-01-18
TikTok ban, Trump inauguration, Instagram switching fully to rectangular grid posts... this is the weekend from hell
2025-01-18 View on X
The Verge

Adam Mosseri says Instagram profile grids will display content as rectangles instead of squares as part of a change rolling out “over the weekend”

Instagram's profile grids will display content as rectangles instead of squares as part of a change rolling out “over the weekend …

2025-01-12
And another thing.  I'm not constitutionally bitchmade.  Please don't put in the newspaper that I'm constitutionally bitchmade. www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...
2025-01-12 View on X
The Verge

In Joe Rogan's softball interview, Zuckerberg pointed to Apple and agencies like CFPB as new targets for the GOP, without mentioning GOP's pressure on Meta

'They haven't invented anything great in a while' Brendan Ryan / Dexerto : Mark Zuckerberg reveals staggering number of Meta users during Joe Rogan's podcast Nathan Worcester / NTD...

And another thing.  I'm not constitutionally bitchmade.  Please don't put in the newspaper that I'm constitutionally bitchmade. www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...
2025-01-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy”

- Rogan interview is latest in sign of shift toward Trump  — CEO says Biden staffers would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ about Covid

2025-01-11
And another thing.  I'm not constitutionally bitchmade.  Please don't put in the newspaper that I'm constitutionally bitchmade. www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …

2025-01-05
Im seeing conspiracy theories about the Meta AI bots.  A few points: these profiles date back to 2023 & haven't posted since early 2024.  They had low engagement before this week.  And it seems possible they were kinda abandoned bc they flopped like other Meta AI bots!  —  www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243...
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

they announced these profiles in 2023, they were just overshadowed by the dumb celebrity AI bot thing. about.fb.com/news/2023/09...  www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243...
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

2025-01-04
Im seeing conspiracy theories about the Meta AI bots.  A few points: these profiles date back to 2023 & haven't posted since early 2024.  They had low engagement before this week.  And it seems possible they were kinda abandoned bc they flopped like other Meta AI bots!  —  www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243...
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

they announced these profiles in 2023, they were just overshadowed by the dumb celebrity AI bot thing. about.fb.com/news/2023/09...  www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243...
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …