Drew Barrymore interviews everybody like they have coke and she doesn’t have any money.

News publishers will eventually fall into one of two camps: those that prioritised societal needs (a healthy thriving media ecosystem) and those that looked after themselves

Your R&D team for using AI is your employees, they can better experiment and judge the results of AI co-intelligence than anyone in a central research organizations.

Paying for frontier AI access for employees, and giving people time and incentives to experiment, is an R&D cost.

How GenAI chatbots respond when asked for the latest news:
When prompted to provide the current top news headlines, ChatGPT returned non-news output 52–54% of the time (usually in an ‘I’m unable to’ message)

Wonder how well this works when in a car with multiple people talking at once, radio on, dog barking

It's happening. It's exciting.

Big update from #PressForward on first funding round opening 4/30: 100+small newsrooms (budget <$1M) can receive $100K over 2 yrs for general operating funding to address long-standing inequalities in journalistic coverage of underserved communities. pressforward.news/press-forward-…

Going forward “Shut the fuck up Travis” shall be the rallying cry against any luddite trying to slow technological progress.

The labor unions were absolutely key in getting this legislation passed

BIG NEWS: NY State leaders agree on landmark, bipartisan plan to help counter the collapse of community news – $30 million in employment tax credits for news outlets. First in the nation. Most significant state effort yet.

Did you know Google has already started using AI to generate search results - in regular search, not Google labs or other sandboxes?

Me neither. Here’s what they look like:

'Why does everyone think the economy is so terrible? It must be the out-of-touch upper-middle-class liberals' 🤔

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This election is about the future of elections (or whether we will have future elections) — Errin Haines #ISOJ

So encouraging to see journalists and content creators discuss learning from each other. Hope this openness continues and grows #ISOJ

One of the most interesting things we've learned from funding nonprofit startups is how similar they are to for-profit startups. Not 100%, but probably 90%. And fortunately that 90% includes the speed and efficiency.

This is wild.

Udio just dropped and it's like Sora for music.

The music are insane quality, 100% AI. 🤯

1. 'Dune the Broadway Musical'

I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

Some statistics on the superalignment fast grants:

We funded 50 out of ~2,700 applications, awarding a total of $9,895,000.

Median grant size: $150k
Average grant size: $198k
Smallest grant size: $50k
Largest grant size: $500k

Grantees:
Universities: $5.7m (22)
Graduate…

This is so fantastic, congratulations!

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