🔗Links etc. 02/09/23
The AI wars continue: Context Collapse #197
Here’s what’s on my radar:
Why Amazon and Marc Cuban are betting big on generic drugs (David Wainer / WSJ)
Microsoft unveils new OpenAI-powered Bing (Microsoft)
Sundar Prichai’s official announcement of Bard, Google’s upcoming AI-powered search release (Sundar Prichai / Google)
American children and teenagers spend an average of 77 minutes daily watching YouTube and 113 minutes daily watching TikTok (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch)
NBC and MSNBC staffers walk off the job to protest layoffs (Corbin Bolies, Diana Falzone & Justin Baragona / Daily Beast)
“Not all founders understand the value of communications, and not all communicators or PR agencies want early-stage work.” (Eleanor Hawkins / Axios)
Starbucks devaluing Starbucks Rewards tiers again (Jake Perez / LinkedIn)
“Microsoft's attack on Google is a fascinating lesson on breaching a moat” (Sushant Koshy / LinkedIn)
Honda entering advertising, brand promo deal with TopGolf (Phoebe Bain / AdAge)
Netflix backtracking on account sharing restrictions (Jessica Lerner / Adweek)
Showtime planning cinematic universies for Dexter and Billions (John Jurgensen / WSJ)
Pakistan blocking Wikipedia because of “blasphemous” pages (Kamran Haider / Bloomberg)
Sports Illustrated’s new publisher using AI to write articles (Alexandra Bruell / WSJ)
Talking to AI might be the most important skill of this century (Charlie Warzel / Atlantic)
How should you talk to ChatGPT? A user’s guide (Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg)
“Google no longer provides the “best” result or answer to your query - it provides the answer that it believes is most beneficial or profitable to Google.” (Ed Zitron / Where’s Your Ed At)
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count (Zoe Schiffer & Casey Newton / Platformer)
Twitter isn’t canceled; it’s downgraded (Kelsey Chickering / Forrester)
Why do so few men read books by women? (MA Sieghart / The Guardian)
Everything you need to know about OpenAI (Pranshu Verma / WaPo)
Inside Harvard’s misinformation meltdown (Ben Smith & Louise Matsakis / Semafor)
Why I’m not worried about my students using ChatGPT (Lawrence Shapiro / WaPo)
Elon Musk: Twitter will share ad revenue with creators who sign up for Twitter Blue (Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch)
ChatGPT for Professionals is a free YouTube course on using ChatGPT in the workplace (Micah Johns / YouTube)
OpenAI president Greg Brockman on the upcoming Microsoft Edge integrated with ChatGPT (Greg Brockman / Twitter)
A "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced (The Cultural Tutor / Twitter)
Joe Rogan interviews Dave Portnoy about the birth of Barstool Sports (Joe Rogan Experience)