I often wonder: What’d happen if another tech platform CEO/founder posted stuff like Elon? What if Zuckerberg did?
What if Sundar Pichai did?
What if Tim Cook did?
What if Evan Spiegel did?
What if Satya Nadella did?
What if Sam Altman did?
What if Linda Yaccarino did?
What if?
@martyswant
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What If Other Tech CEOs Posted Like Elon Musk?
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AI Experts in News and Media Research
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If you want a startup founder focused on AI-assisted news, @fpmarconi
’s great. For someone researching AI’s impact on news, try @_FelixSimon_ or @rasmus_kleis
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Digiday AI news timeline review past twelve months
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This @Digiday timeline is by no means exhaustive, but instead aims to review some of the AI-related news for each of the past 12 months.
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Year-End AI News Timeline and 2025 Outlook
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Happy New Year! After a week offline with family for Christmas in Minnesota, it's finally time to start revving back for 2025. I'll probably write something more reflective later, but here's an EOY timeline I wrote pre-holidays that recaps some of the AI news from the past year:
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Pegasus Spyware Threatens Privacy Democracy and Digital Security
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Good thread for anyone interested in this topic. For anyone wanting to understand this case and the bigger issue, here’s a great book: “Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy.”
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Google Releases Major News Before Holiday Break
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Big news for Google to release a few days ago — right before everyone tunes out for the holidays.
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New AI Metrics: Chat Volume and Share of Model Measurement
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I've written about aspects of this increasingly important topic before, but today's @Digiday tag-team with @sammbradley looks at how companies like Profound, @brandtechgroup and others are tackling the new metrics like chat volume and "share of model." https://
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AI Platforms Analyzing Brand Perception Through LLM Conversations
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With AI platforms like @ChatGPTapp & @perplexity_ai gaining traction, tech firms are trying to understand how LLMs perceive their brands, what outputs mention and what user chat about. The latest example is the AI startup Profound's tool for estimate conversation volume.
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Perplexity Plans RAG Updates in Coming Months
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Expect more RAG-related updates from Perplexity in the coming months. Here's what it noted in a blog post:
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Perplexity acquires Carbon to expand enterprise integration capabilities
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Christmas came early for @perplexity_ai
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, a retrieval engine startup that will let Perplexity connect to apps like @NotionHQ and @googledocs
. While there's been plenty of talk about Perplexity's ad plans, this is a big enterprise play ahead of 2025.