it's now cool to start media companies! jfyi
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AI Transforming Media: Access Inequality Concerns
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My AI caught it fast: https://
alignednews.com/ai AI is about to change media deeply. Jealous that you are getting access to AI resources that I never can match. -
OpenAI acquires TBPN, maintaining editorial independence and resources
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Having worked closely with @DylanAbruscato @johncoogan @jordihays and the TBPN team over the past year, I couldn't be more excited to see @OpenAI supporting new media in such a big way. AI is moving fast, and the old comms playbook just isn’t enough. We need to support better ways for people to follow what’s happening, understand what matters, and hear directly from the people building this stuff. TBPN has already cracked a lot of that and I can't wait to see where we go from here. Also- it's important to note that TBPN will keep its editorial independence. They’ll keep running their programming, choosing guests, and making their own calls. That independence is core to why people trust them, and we’re protecting that explicitly. Jordi Hays (@jordihays) TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI The world is changing quickly but TBPN will stay the same. Live every weekday just with a lot more resources. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of this journey big or small. We are 17 months in and unironically just getting started. — https://nitter.net/jordihays/status/2039756490387624327#m
→ View original post on X — @romainhuet, 2026-04-02 17:52 UTC
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AI-Powered Smart Glasses Will Curate News for Us
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Because soon we will be wearing glasses and AI will decide the news for us and bring us a 24-hour-a-day TV channel. My AI is keeping up:
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How AI Will Transform News Media and Journalism
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My AI already wrote some words about it. We should talk about how AI is about to change news. https://
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OpenAI Acquires Leading Tech Journalism Firm for Content Control
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Everyone else pays influencers. OpenAI just bought the most important technology journalism firm. Smart. Content is going to decide a lot about the future. OpenAI just bought the best.
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Block’s 40% Staff Cut and AI-Centered Company Restructuring Strategy
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NEW EPISODE: @jack & @roelofbotha unpack @blocks 40% staff cut and rebuilding the entire company as a mini-AGI. This isn’t “use AI to make people more productive.” It’s making the company itself the intelligence. If you’re a founder or operator wondering what work looks like in the next 5 years… this is the episode. The evolution looks like: • Manager mode = Pyramid 🔺 (command & control) • Founder mode = Flat ➖(founders decide fast) • Dorsey mode = Circle 🔵 w/ AI at the center, humans at the edge, and decisions flow from customer inputs → AI → humans steering it I’ve tried killing org charts before. Brutally hard. But we never had these tools. This is rewriting the CEO playbook for the AI era. Buckle up. 00:00 Existential Dread & Hope 02:56 AI Replaces Hierarchy 07:22 Block’s New Three Roles 26:47 Flattening the Company, Fast 35:23 Getting the Board to Buy-In, Fast 36:50 Building a Great Board 41:29 Founder CEO Lessons 48:18 Second Acts & Conviction 56:22 Timeless CEO Traits
→ View original post on X — @paulroetzer, 2026-04-02 17:03 UTC
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Machine Consciousness Conference Berkeley May 2026
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How do we make artificial consciousness and its implications legible to society? Join us at the Machine Consciousness conference to discuss it! Over three days in Berkeley, researchers, builders, and thinkers will explore not just the technical construction of artificial consciousness, but what it means for ethics, culture, and society. May 29–31, 2026 Lighthaven, Berkeley, California Speakers: @stephen_wolfram @Plinz @AngieNormandale @franz_hiha @anderssandberg @georgejwdeane @webmasterdave @philiprosedale @zhentan @patriciacraja @drmichaellevin @jim_rutt @chris_percy @CatalinMitelut @kanair @RanaGujral @louviq @LAlbantakis Registration link below
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Waymo Autonomous Vehicles Transform Customer Driving Preferences
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Totally. Been interviewing Waymo customers and they love them. Getting three rides in one changes them deeply. Many say that before they got that experience they thought they "loved to drive" or "could never trust a computer to drive." After? They say: 1. I'm never going