When Ashton Pittman, an award-winning news editor and reporter, first joined the app Bluesky, he said, he was the only Mississippi journalist he knew to be using it. Until about five weeks ago, he said, that was the case....
Creator Kai Cenat broke the record for the highest subscriber count on Amazon’s Twitch during a nonstop live stream for the entire month of November.Cenat is a 22-year-old streamer who rose to popularity over the past two years with...
If you listen to Steve Bannon’s podcast, War Room — I’d recommend it, in moderation — you’ll hear a steady stream of threats and vivid revenge fantasies directed at the media. He likes warning MSNBC hosts to “preserve your documents.”Kash Patel,...
OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as the ChatGPT maker seeks new revenue sources as it restructures as a for-profit company.Sarah Friar, chief financial officer at OpenAI, told the Financial Times in an...
ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain...
Fake celebrity investment scams may soon be harder to push on Facebook and Instagram, with Meta introducing a requirement that financial advertisers are verified.Beginning in early February, Meta will require advertisers seeking to run ads about financial services to...
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, in 2022, and renamed it X, the number of users has steadily declined. For journalists, who anecdotal evidence suggests are quitting in large numbers, the shift has been particularly profound.
Origen: How Twitter Turning...
When I was growing up in New York in the 1970s, the city was at its nadir—bankruptcy, burned-out buildings, rampant crime. I started in public school, then switched to private in the fifth grade. My parents made the change...
Australia has passed a law to prevent children under 16 from creating accounts on social media platforms.The bill, which the government calls a “world leading” move to protect young people online, was approved in the Senate on Thursday with...
A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train...
