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"OpenAI will need to raise unprecedented amounts of capital through venture funding, debt and an eventual public offering." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The industry’s drive to use Congress to override state laws is stirring local lawmakers to move more quickly."

"Roughly $100 million would be needed over the next two years to avoid widespread closures."

"The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month."

"PBS is disproportionately affected by the loss of federal funding because it has historically relied on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting more than NPR has."

“We’re at the inflection point where people don’t need to visit websites.”

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

"Public broadcasters are turning to foundation funders, philanthropists and local donors to help resolve the coming cash crunch."

"If there is consensus, it’s around having a diversified strategy that avoids being reliant on any third-party platform to reach an audience."

“It was initially framed as a voluntary buyout, but I think they’re using it as an opportunity to redo the staff.”

"Zuckerberg has offered more than 10 of OpenAI’s researchers eye-watering pay packages of $300 million over four years, including $100 million the first year."

"Taking a cut of sales from ChatGPT would allow the company to make money from users of its free version, a so-far untapped source of revenue."

"The announcement from Meta comes days after OpenAI said it would sign the code."

"More than 100 combined TV and radio stations that serve millions of Americans in rural pockets of the country will be at risk of going dark."

"Reddit is exploring using World ID, the eyeball-scanning technology from Sam Altman’s Worldcoin venture, as a way to verify users while granting them anonymity."

"A.I. companies that do not pay for content will ultimately lose out on access to it."

"Companies such as Facebook, TikTok and X will have to act immediately to remove material such as hate speech, incitement to violence or 'anti-democratic acts', even without a prior judicial takedown order."

"Noosphere offers journalists a place to showcase work to consumers who are attracted by a more personal style of reporting than they’d normally see on traditional outlets."

"A switch to Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT models for Siri would be an acknowledgment that the company is struggling to compete in generative AI — the most important new technology in decades."

“This is the first major ruling in a generative AI copyright case to address fair use in detail.”

"Musk seeks to model the platform after China’s WeChat — a one-stop shop for messaging, payments and shopping."

"Salaries for a software engineer at OpenAI range from around $238,000 to $1.34mn, according to financial package tracking website Levels, while Meta’s salaries varied from $212,000 to around $3.7mn."

"Musk’s startup is currently trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity. But even before the money is in the bank, the company has plans to spend more than half of it in just the next three months."

"Lobbyists acting on behalf of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are urging the Senate to enact a decade-long moratorium on individual states introducing their own efforts to legislate AI."

“As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.“

"This is a new technology, and we want to have a strong say as to how it gets used and doesn’t get used in our industry."

"Next year, editors hope to restart production of print issues."

“Reddit says Anthropic accessed its site more than 100,000 times after saying it had stopped.”

“Generating ads from scratch with AI could be a boon to small and midsize businesses.”

"Executives have already considered a list of potential partners that includes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Salt Lake Tribune, the popular Substack writer Matt Yglesias and The Dispatch."

"It has become fairly common for adverts for annotation jobs to require a PhD or skills in coding and science."

"AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years."

"This is The Times’s first licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology."

"In five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language."

"The bot is built to handle about 90% of the minutiae and straightforward issues that arise in most business meetings."

"Instead of giving options, Google decided to 'silently update,' with 'no public announcement' about how they were using publishers’ data."

"Google is overhauling its iconic search engine to compete more directly with a wave of artificial-intelligence chatbots that threaten its core business."

"We’re spending more on products so our experience is one that customers want to enjoy and use directly, rather than getting a kind of a diluted version of that through an AI aggregator."

"The digital advertising landscape could be unrecognizable in five years."

“The move could complicate the company’s future fundraising efforts.”

"A new era for the internet may be coming into view."

"In recent years, CJR relied on a $2 million cushion created during a fund-raising campaign nearly a decade ago."

"The company decided to sue, in part, in the hope that other publishers would follow."

"As the magazine industry has contracted, many of the more decadent parts of the job are long gone."

"A social app would give OpenAI its own unique, real-time data that X and Meta already have to help train their AI models."

"The ruling marked the second time in eight months that a U.S. judge labeled Google an illegal monopolist—and could lead the Justice Department to seek a forced sale of some of the company’s advertising products."

"The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet."

"As of early March, X had served $91 million of ads in the first quarter, well below its target of $153 million."

"There is no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance."