Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news
Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news

Alexandra Bruell reported the talks for the Wall Street Journal on 12 August, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has approached publishers over recent months. The content would give Siri AI access to current news and information, the kind th…

Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board
Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board

The Airbnb chief executive made the argument on the Yahoo Finance podcast Power Players with Brian Sozzi this week. His diagnosis has two parts. “I think part of it’s a narrative issue that we’re not talking about AI correctly,” he said. The second par…

YouTube Raised Its Monetization Bar. Some Filmmakers Do Not Rely On It

YouTube is raising monetization thresholds, but filmmakers say its real value often lies in audience, commissions, sponsors and reach.

Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting
Twitch will train Amazon’s AI on your streams unless you find the setting

Twitch has added a setting letting streamers stop Amazon using their streams, clips and chat to train generative AI, buried in security settings and off by default. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the default plainly, saying that if it were…

Instagram changed its logo. The bit you actually tap is the same
Instagram changed its logo. The bit you actually tap is the same

Instagram changed its wordmark on Thursday. A wordmark is the written name, the word “Instagram” as it appears at the top of the app. It is not the icon. The pink and orange gradient square on your home screen is untouched. The change itself is small. …

An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one
An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one

Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model to…

YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool
YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool

Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance’s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a week, after Hank Green walked back his use of ChatGPT for…

Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts
Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts

Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. Hi…

Xfinity’s Vertical Reality Competition Series With Katie Feeney Will Be A Test For Emerging Creators

Xfinity’s ‘Best in Class’ puts college creators in a vertical reality competition, reimagining the genre and the traditional path of reality contestant to creator.

ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped
ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped

GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the develop…