Here’s what’s on my radar:
Microsoft kickstarts the AI arms race (Casey Newton / Platformer)
Boring but important: Microsoft Edge will switch to Adobe Acrobat’s PDF rendering engine (Lawrence Abrams / Bleeping Computer)
“If an A.I. arms race within social has turned every platform into a video platform and is turning our search engines into chatbots, how do you get people to look at your website?” (Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day)
Warner Bros. Discovery will keep Discovery+ as a standalone service; Discovery+ content will still be folded into HBO Max (Jessica Toonkel & Joe Flint / WSJ)
The archives of the East Village Eye go to the New York Public Library (Hannah Gold / TNY)
“More recently, multiple sources say that Roiland, other than voice work, has not had any meaningful creative presence on any of the series that bear his name. In fact, many of his former colleagues say they haven’t heard from him in years, and when they have, it’s been unpleasant. They note, too, that he hasn’t been on speaking terms with his Rick and Morty co-creator, Dan Harmon, for multiple seasons, and a substantial number of staffers on that show as well as Solar Opposites and Koala Man have never actually met Roiland, even over Zoom.” (Lacey Rose & Katie Kilkenny / THR)
Apple’s ad targeting mechanics revealed in recent French privacy case (Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo)
Penske Media invests $100 million in Vox Media (Benjamin Mullin & Katherine Rosman / NYT)
A behind-the-scenes look at how Ask a Manager runs (Ask a Manager)
AI-generated Seinfeld show “Nothing, Forever” banned from Twitch for 14 days after AI generates transgender-themed jokes (Jason Koebler / Vice)
Elon Musk backtracks on Twitter API mega-price increases (Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo)
Best Twitter meme about lost value time of non-necessary meetings ever (@0xgaut / Twitter)
Terrible online advertising isn’t going anywhere (Paul Graham / Twitter)
