Analyzing the space where AI & Content meet.
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Ex-Palantir Vet: Your AI Problem Is Really a Data Problem
I love meeting a new brain on a stick in the world of AI.
If they know data and AI, even better.
And if they hail from a legendary (and relatively secret) company like Palantir?
Well, I’m a happy camper.
Ben Amor checks all those box...
How to Win When AI Replaces the Click
The click is disappearing. That doesn’t mean the value of content is.
Publishers need to stop thinking only about AI traffic and licensing revenue and start figuring out how an AI answer can generate revenue directly.
I was honored to app...
“Is It Sketchy?” Inside OpenAI’s Private Conversations About Content
AI runs on three things: algorithms, compute and data.
I’ve always been especially interested in the third.
So I dug into a newly unsealed filing in the lawsuit brought by John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult and other authors a...
Publishers Block Just 22% of AI Bots. Here’s What They’re Missing
Publishers may be fighting the wrong AI battle.
AI bots honor robots.txt about 96% of the time.
Yet across 1,000 major publishers, only 22% of known AI training bots are being blocked.
But I think there’s an even bigger strategic point:...
How Sam Altman Gets Power Without Looking Like He's Grabbing It
Sam Altman may be the best in the world at acquiring power without appearing to grab it.
That’s my biggest takeaway after reading The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey.
Consider the contradict...
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