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Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text — OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law …
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Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits — To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.
Bloomberg:
Sources: if Skydance and National Amusements merge, David Ellison would become CEO of the combined company; Ellison aims to spend billions to rebuild Paramount — - Producer, tech heir has a month to seal a definitive agreement — He needs to sell Paramount's board on merger with his company
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Skydance's bid for Paramount, backed by RedBird and KKR, would keep Paramount publicly traded; David Ellison and Jeff Shell would have leadership roles
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting users generate playlists using a text prompt — Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
How Forbes, the Financial Times, Snopes, Trusted Media Brands, and other news publishers are updating on-site search with AI chatbots — Publishers are testing generative AI technology to update a rather boring function on their sites that hasn't been updated in a while: search.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources say Soros Fund Management's move to became the largest shareholder in radio company Audacy could be the beginning of a bigger audio buying spree — George Soros thinks it's good business, and perhaps good politics, to be in your ears. — Over the last two years, Soros Fund Management …
Bloomberg:
FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 — - Sales figures for the app released in FTC's antitrust lawsuit — Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022 …
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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, passed away in March at age 41, according to a post on Genius attributed to his family — Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor …
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Amanda Christovich / Front Office Sports:
Nielsen: the UConn-Iowa women's Final Four match drew 14.2M viewers, a record for women's college basketball and ESPN's most-watched basketball game ever — Even with the men's Final Four about to tip off Saturday, the focus of the national college basketball world turned, again, to the women's tournament.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Rep. Jim Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to major advertisers including GroupM to explain why they won't advertise on Truth Social — from the not-wanting-to-funnel-money-to- trump? -that's-a-crime! dept — Jim Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee …
Cameron Joseph / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at States Newsroom, a nonprofit network in all 50 US states focused on state politics and policy, with 220 full-time staff and a $22M+ annual budget — In late January, after wrapping up his annual State of the State speech, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R) headed out to meet the press.
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@cam_joseph, @coreyhutchins, @nbj914@threads.net, Adam Kealoha Causey on LinkedIn and @thestalwart
Anthony Boadle / Reuters:
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” it imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts” and is defying the court's ruling — Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X …
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Matt Binder / Mashable:
X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI” — The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.
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