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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.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS hires Wendy Fisher, who ran newsgathering operations at ABC News, to lead a newly formed national weather news operation across CBS' news and stations unit — CBS is forecasting that viewer interest in the ins and outs of national weather is about to gain new wind.
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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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@lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw
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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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The Information, @jtoonkel, Wall Street Journal, @rogoswami, Variety, The Wrap, Alex Sherman on LinkedIn and New York Times
Corey Hutchins / Inside the News in Colorado:
More than 30 Colorado newsrooms, led by COLab, launch a statewide initiative to better cover the 2024 US elections by focusing on voter concerns — The news behind the news in Colorado this week — More than two dozen Colorado newsrooms have launched an unprecedented collaboration to better cover the 2024 elections.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources say Soros Fund Management's move to become the largest shareholder in radio company Audacy could be the beginning of a bigger audio buying spree — The Scoop — George Soros thinks it's good business, and perhaps good politics, to be in your ears.
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.
Bloomberg:
Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the ten most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but most of the 100 most popular titles are original series — Netflix isn't the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows. — We are inching closer to Paramount having a new owner.
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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Steven Finch on LinkedIn, 9to5Mac, @carnage4life, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Spotify, Mashable and @scobleizer, more at Techmeme »
Clara Aberneithie / Press Gazette:
Former Business Insider EIC Jim Edwards and two others launch MoneyIn2, a personal finance brand on Substack, offering two minutes of information per day — MoneyIn2 hopes to tell those who don't yet have money how to make it. — Open publishing and newsletter technology has “opened the market” …
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@jim_edwards, Jim Edwards on LinkedIn and @jim_edwards
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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Moghadam Family on Genius, @joshconstine, @cherrrywood, @azeemk_, @longlivetheduke, @markjeffrey, @mattturck, @johncoogan, @schlaf, @defidave22, @shanazakhan14, @thedataroom, @semil, @turnernovak, @typesfast, @darbyw, @geoffreywoo, @maiyegun, @bradflora, @dgt10011, @joshconstine, @amlewis4, @iankar_, @lutherlowe, @sameoldshawn, @thesamparr, @eriktorenberg, @robaeprice, @aseidman, @austen and @dmitricherniak
Anthony Boadle / Reuters:
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts”, and X 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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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Filings from the FTC's Meta lawsuit: Instagram had $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue and more than YouTube's $28.8B ad revenue in 2021 — - Instagram generated $32.4 billion in ad revenue in 2021, making up 27% of Meta's total revenue.
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