Instagram’s founders are shutting down Artifact, their year-old news app The app was known for AI-powered features and Reddit-like posting abilities. Karissa Bell Sat, Jan 13, 2024 Artifact Artifact, the buzzy news app from Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is shutting down less than a year after its launch. In a note … Continue reading Instagram’s founders are shutting down Artifact, their year-old news app
Haven’t done anything about your holiday cards yet? Artificial intelligence comes to the rescue. If you trust it. Constantine von Hoffman on December 21, 2023 Good news if you are running very late on dealing with holiday cards like I am. AI is here to help! Digital United has launched the free-to-use JingleBot HolidAI (I … Continue reading AI-powered martech releases and news: Dec. 21
Meta says a bug briefly blocked news for Canadian users on Threads The Online News Act’s framework doesn’t apply to Threads for now, the company said. Karissa Bell · Pranav Dixit Updated Wed, Dec 20, 2023 SOPA Images via Getty Images Meta has fixed a bug that temporarily prevented some Threads users in Canada from … Continue reading Meta says a bug briefly blocked news for Canadian users on Threads
By Emily Price November 20, 2023 If you were looking for information about Sam Altman’s abrupt departure from OpenAI this weekend, you likely found yourself, like me, constantly refreshing your news feed on X. While advertisers like Apple and Disney were fleeing the platform, starting Friday, over concerns that their ads were being shown … Continue reading OpenAI drama shows why news junkies can’t quit Twitter, even if they hate X
By Chantel Tattoli November 08, 2023 Salon, the left-leaning news and opinion website, is being sold to a team of French entrepreneurs behind the two-year-old Malta-based media company, Find.co, sources involved in the deal tell Fast Company. Salon was founded and staffed in 1995 by former San Francisco Examiner journalists as one of the … Continue reading Online news pioneer ‘Salon’ is sold for an undisclosed sum
News publishers are concerned AI answers will replace Search traffic, leading to less revenue, lost jobs and other damages. Danny Goodwin on November 1, 2023 AI companies (e.g., Google, OpenAI) are primarily using high-quality content created by news publishers to train generative AI systems, which then compete directly against those publishers. That’s the core argument … Continue reading Report: Generative AI violates copyrights of news publishers
Cox Media Group Follows Search Engines Into ‘Really Local’ News And Reach by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 22, 2023 Cox Media Group (CMG) has followed search engines like Google and Microsoft, as well as platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook, into the world of community local news. The goal is to attract small local advertisers and … Continue reading Cox Media Group Follows Search Engines Into ‘Really Local’ News And Reach
A look at the AI martech products, platforms, features and related news from the past week. Constantine von Hoffman on July 13, 2023 So much is happening when it comes to artificial intelligence and marketing technology that it’s a struggle to keep up with it all. To help you here’s our roundup of the AI … Continue reading This week’s roundup of the latest AI martech products and news
Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada Brad Anderson / Jun 23, 2023 The Canadian Senate has passed legislation requiring websites like Google and Meta to compensate news organizations for information that has been syndicated or repurposed. This occurs at a time when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration is … Continue reading Google and Meta to Pay Media Outlets for News Content in Canada
By Connie Lin April 20, 2023 BuzzFeed Inc. will close down its journalism venture, BuzzFeed News, the company’s cofounder and chief executive Jonah Peretti revealed on Thursday, in yet another grim reckoning for the digital-media industry. Spun out of BuzzFeed over a decade ago, the News unit was credited with bringing prestige to the … Continue reading BuzzFeed News is closing up shop as the company nurses its bottom line, enlists ChatGPT
