Nilay Patel
Our Netflix show, The Future Of, was nominated for an Emmy Award!
It’s good, I’m hopelessly biased in favor of it, and you should watch it. That’s the disclosure!
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Crypto has a lot of haters these days. The former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Stack Overflow wants AI companies to pay up for training on its data, too.
The company is the latest to demand payment for training data, following Reddit and various publishers around the world. Wired has the story:
“Community platforms that fuel LLMs absolutely should be compensated for their contributions so that companies like us can reinvest back into our communities to continue to make them thrive,” Stack Overflow’s Chandrasekar says. “We’re very supportive of Reddit’s approach.”
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TikTok is not okay with our fake-Drake laser bong song.
We have been trying to post it all day and keep getting flagged because, well, it is obviously about doing drugs with lasers. I demand a Congressional hearing into this situation. Also: just watch it on YouTube Shorts.
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The end of the social web is just really something.
Here’s former BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief (and now Semafor co-founder) Ben Smith on the shutdown of BuzzFeed News.
“Peretti had built BuzzFeed into a traffic juggernaut by being among the first to see the rising social web. But BuzzFeed never found a new path when that trend turned against us — when consumers found their Facebook feeds toxic, not delightful; when platforms decided news was poison; and when Facebook, Twitter, and the rest simply stopped distributing links to websites.”
The end of the BuzzFeed era in news
[www.semafor.com]
If young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
The Fox / Dominion defamation trial is off to an appropriate start.
It’s day one of the big defamation trial against Fox News for broadcasting lies about Dominion’s voting machines, and here is this update from the New York Times live blog:
There’s been no shortage of drama in this case, and today is already no different. After the judge swore in the jury, one of the alternates raised his hand, stood up and said, “I can’t do this! I can’t do this!” He was dismissed and replaced in fairly short order.
Incredible strategy to get out of jury duty!
Dominion-Fox News Trial: Update from Jim Rutenberg
[The New York Times]
CEO Travis Katz is running a sustainable delivery startup from within a century-old car company.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Some people have been waiting for Starship to launch for a very long time.
A little under an hour to go before the first Starship launch, which means you have enough time to watch our video (or read our story) about the small community of people who’ve uprooted their lives to live near Starbase in Texas. A huge day for them!