Depth Perception / Mark Yarm
“Just the tip of the iceberg”: The New York Times’ Zach Seward on embracing AI →“One area of focus for my team is helping reporters who have a good problem to have — but nevertheless a problem — which is too much data: reams and reams of documents or huge sets of images of handwritten notes or massive transcripts of an enormous number of videos. We’re trying to help find the needle in the haystack, to dig through those data sets in intelligent ways, using the reporters’ background knowledge assisted by an LLM or other machine learning model.”
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
Press Gazette / Dominic Ponsford
Trump’s threat to global media is more wide-ranging than just a trade war →“Over the last 15 years publishers have come to rely on two US tech giants — Meta and Alphabet — for online discoverability…Wilkinson said these companies (as well as Amazon and X) have now repositioned themselves behind Trump’s ‘America first shield’ when it comes to regulation in a move which may put hundreds of millions of dollars of news industry revenue at risk.”
Reuters / Jonathan Stempel
The retrial of Sarah Palin v. New York Times starts on Monday →“Palin, 61, who was defeated in her 2008 bid for the nation’s second-highest office, lost her first trial against the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet in 2022. But last August, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan found the verdict tainted by several rulings by the presiding judge, and ordered a retrial.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Alex Weprin
James Cameron thinks AI can cut the cost of making a blockbuster movie in half →“A lot of the a lot of the hesitation in Hollywood and entertainment in general, are issues of the source material for the training data, and who deserves what, and copyright protection…Anybody that’s an artist, anybody that’s a human being, is a model. You’re a model already, you’ve got a three and a half pound meat computer. We’re models moving through space and time and reacting based on our training data.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Alex Weprin
The Guardian / Margaret Sullivan
The Wall Street Journal / Isabella Simonetti
The Verge / Allison Johnson
Press Gazette / Dominic Ponsford
The president of The Economist on building a moat to defend media against AI →“The Economist Group has not signed any content licensing deals with generative Al companies and it is also yet to join any of the lawsuits brought over content theft…’we see our strategy as what I call offensive defense, where we believe we have a moat which exists already and we need to keep on building and making ever stronger. And that’s through spending more on brand marketing, so our brand really stands out.”