🔗Links etc. 02/10/23

Peacock and Microsoft having good PR years: Context Collapse #198

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Here’s what’s on my radar. As always, don’t forget to share today’s links with someone who would appreciate them:

Now on to the links.

“In the last few months, Peacock has been the home of Spanish-language World Cup broadcasts, a limited series set in the world of the Best Man franchise, multiple new Real Housewives seasons, reality breakout The Traitors, Rian Johnson’s high-profile TV debut Poker Face, and multiple Oscar nominee Tár. And that’s not to mention its back catalogue of television episodes, from pandemic binge Columbo to populist cowboy drama Yellowstone.” (Natalie Jarvey / Vanity Fair)

Nintendo unveils 2023 Switch roadmap at Nintendo Direct (Nintendo)

Good piece on Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art serving as backdrops at this year’s Grammys (Caroline Goldstein / Artnet)

Disney lays off 7000 employees in first big post-Bob Iger back as CEO move (Mollie Cahillane / Adweek)

“(Madonna was) right, of course, about the misogyny in particular. The takeaway from President Biden’s State of the Union speech was, his best performance in years, not what is going on with his eyelids? but the takeaway with Madonna — an icon who has been steering culture since Ronald Reagan was in office — was, did Madonna’s face eat Madonna’s face?” (Monica Hesse / WaPo)

TikTok adding new marketing and advertising tools aimed at small businesses (Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter)

Financial Times names Madhumita Murgia as their first ever editor for artificial intelligence coverage (Charlotte Tobitt / PressGazette)

John Cleese and Rob Reiner unveil Fawlty Towers reboot (Jordan King / Empire)

“In one eye-popping demo on Tuesday, a Microsoft executive navigated to the Gap’s website, opened a PDF file with the company’s most recent quarterly financial results and asked Edge to both summarize the key takeaways and create a table comparing the data with the most recent financial results from another clothing company, Lululemon. The A.I. did both, almost instantly. […] After I turn in this column, I’m going to do something I thought I’d never do: I’m switching my desktop computer’s default search engine to Bing. (Kevin Roose / NYT)

UK regulators moving to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard (Sarah E. Needleman & Kim Mackrael / WSJ)

Google introduces by-the-hour pricing for masthead ads on YouTube’s homepage (Kristen O’Hara & Ellen Czaika / Google)

Friend of Context Collapse Dan Gerstein explains how he built Gotham Ghostwriters (Dan Gerstein / As Told To)

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