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Eisenberg: Users will rely on AI agents over direct publisher websites
“As you kind of play this forward, you're going to see a whole series of agents. Like I'm not going to go to the New York times.com to read it. I'm going to go to my AI screen and say, fetch me the articles that interest me from the New York times today.”
Human Data Quantity Matters More Than High-Prestige Journalism Sources
“People frequently mistake what quality of data means because they think, oh, you have to train on the New York Times. And actually, in fact most of it is quantity of human data, not because you've had any particular journalist who's, who's got a particularly n…”
Boyle: Top Journalists Will Leave Premier News Institutions for Independent Platforms
“So I do think you can see a shift even at the top, even at the Washington Post and the New York Times, where people will opt out of those premier institutions because they value the freedom to monetize their following. And they also value the freedom to say wh…”
Best: Digital media will bifurcate into global juggernauts and niche publications
“No, I think that's exactly right. I mean, I think this is the thing you get when the internet creates kind of a global marketplace for things is you want to be the best in the world at something. And that either means being the best in the world by being reall…”
Dataminer detected Bin Laden's death 28 minutes before Bloomberg and NYT
“So for example, they had identified the assassination of Bin Laden 28 minutes before Bloomberg in the New York Times.”
Netflix and Amazon employees adopted x.ai without any sales contact.
“On the thousands and thousands of people that have adopted the single-use case version of Amy, I never talked to the New York Times, or Netflix, or Amazon, or Salesforce, but those companies, they just have employees in pain, and since there's no integration, …”