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BuzzFeed Has Most of Its Cash in Failed Silicon Valley Bank
The company, which reported $56 million in cash and equivalents at the end of 2022, says its operations won’t be disrupted
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BuzzFeed CEO Urges Digital Media Entrepreneurs to Find and Ride ‘the Wave That’s Forming’
Office With a View: “Having a trend that you can align with is really important,” says Jonah Peretti
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Why NFT Creators Are Up in Arms Over Royalties – and Rightly So | PRO Insight
OpenSea has defended a change it made to payments, saying competition forced its hand
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No Bylines for Bots: BuzzFeed CEO Says AI Won’t Replace Human Journalists
“The place where I’m most excited about AI is not in news, but in entertainment,” Jonah Peretti says
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Social Media Is Changing – and Paid Accounts Are the Response | PRO Insight
Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are not for ordinary users — they’re for the professionals who’ve taken over the feeds
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How Vice, Vox and BuzzFeed Blew the Future of Media
Once worth billions of dollars, the companies are struggling to move forward
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Next Up for AI Chatbots? It’s All About How to Apply Them | PRO Insight
The magical demos displayed the capability, and now the platform wars begin
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The Supreme Court Won’t Fix Section 230 for the Same Reason as Congress: It’s Political | Analysis
Though there is broad agreement that Section 230 needs an update, a partisan battle is keeping the stalemate going
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Lore Machine Wants to Use AI to Unlock the Value in Hollywood’s Vaults | PRO Insight
As publishers and other creators seek payments for the value chatbots extract from them, one Los Angeles startup points the way for artists getting paid
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The Wacky, Unhinged Bing Chatbot Is Still Good for Microsoft’s Business | PRO Insight
If the new search enhancement gaslights you, you might like it even more
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Quits After 9 Years
Chief product officer Neal Mohan will become the new head of the online video sharing platform
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There’s No Place Like Dome: The MSG Sphere Shows How IRL Can Beat VR | PRO Insight
The sheer scale and audacity of the $2.2 billion Las Vegas venue point the way to creating experiences that compete with digital
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Do Chatbots Get Us Any Closer to Human-Level Artificial Intelligence? | PRO Insight
For AI to mirror human intelligence, it must perceive the world as we do
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To Err Is Human – and That’s What Makes Human Creativity in the Age of AI Divine | PRO Insight
Embracing our fallibility may be the only way to turn the tide on the coming wave of robotic content authoring
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Google Aims to Overtake ChatGPT’s Head Start With Launch of AI Chatbot ‘Bard’
The test phase of the service follows a $300 million investment last week in another AI startup