The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust
The AI story is changing fast. A few months ago, it was all promise and inevitability. Now even AI boosters are asking if the numbers make sense. Ed Zitron got there early. He runs a PR firm for a li...
15 Okt 202554min
Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive
In lots of ways Guardian Media Group is facing the same problems as every other news publisher: A tricky ad environment, platform problems, looming AI threats. One big difference: The Guardian also h...
8 Okt 202539min
Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?
In the future, digital publishers could get run over by AI. In the present, they are deeply concerned about Google, and the prospect that the search giant is going to choke off their last reliable tra...
1 Okt 202534min
The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment
When’s the last time you stayed up to watch a late night TV monologue? Months? Years? Decades? I’m not sure, either. But I stayed up Tuesday night to watch Jimmy Kimmel’s return. James Poniewozik, wh...
24 Sep 202526min
I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath
A year ago I got try a pair of $10,000 computer goggles from Meta. The tech was super-impressive, but you couldn’t buy them them. You still can’t. Now Mark Zuckerberg is trying a similar idea. But th...
18 Sep 202545min
How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash
John Coogan knows what you’re thinking: the world does not need another tech podcast. And the world does not need another podcast featuring two dudes talking. Yet Coogan and Jordi Hays have started a...
15 Sep 202539min
Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans
Everyone agrees that the decline/disapperance of local news is a big problem. No one agrees about the best way to solve it. So let’s check in on a new AI push from Patch, the people who have been try...
10 Sep 202539min
Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status
One thing about the internet is that it lets you build really, really fast. A little more than a year ago, Oliver Darcy was an unemployed former CNN media reporter. Today he’s the proprietor of Status...
3 Sep 202553min
