For years now, many AI industry watchers have looked at the quickly growing capabilities of new AI models and mused about exponential performance increases continuing well into the future. Recently, though, some of that AI “scaling law” optimism has been replaced by fears that we may already be hitting a plateau in the capabilities of …
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Music companies appeal, demanding payment for each song instead of each album. Credit: Getty Images | digicomphoto The big three record labels notched another court victory against a broadband provider last month, but the music publishing firms aren’t happy that an appeals court only awarded per-album damages instead of damages for each song. Universal, Warner, …
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MediaSense, the U.K.-based media advisory firm that consults on all manner of media issues, notably guiding marketers seeking new agencies, is further expanding its global footprint with the acquisition of fellow advisory firm R3, which delves into consulting on both the creative and media sides. The financial terms of the agreement were not made available. …
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Jasper, one of the earlier players in generative AI marketing tech, has developed new ways to give marketers more control over AI-created content. Today, the Austin-based startup is adding several new features to give marketers more control and consistency when creating and scaling AI-generated content. One new feature, Brand IQ, uses API-based tooling to let …
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By Tony Case • November 12, 2024 • Ivy Liu This article was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife As organizations generate an avalanche of daily employee data — everything from Slack messages to Microsoft docs — people managers face an unprecedented challenge: how to transform all that so-called “dead data” into actionable insights. “We …
In recent weeks, the ad tech sector’s publicly traded companies released their official earnings figures, offering insights into the industry’s critical underpinning developments. Yesterday (November 11), Zeta delivered its Q3 earnings call, noting that revenues soared 42% year over year to hit $268 million. It also increased its quarterly earnings guidance to $297 million (up …
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By Digiday Editors • November 12, 2024 • Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify It’s been roughly a week since Donald Trump was voted into his second presidential term and already, his return to the White House is expected to send ripple effects throughout the advertising world. Publishers are considering what a second Trump presidency looks …
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In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative. While still in their training wheels, the large language models (LLMs) used to create chatbots like ChatGPT are being recruited to spot fake news. With better detection, AI fake news checking systems may …
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Ruby’s creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), released the first public version of the programming language in December 1995, making Ruby just shy of its 30th birthday. It spread across Japanese-language Usenet newsgroups, a popular way of exchanging conversation and media before the World Wide Web, and then reached broader communities throughout the late 1990s. This was …
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Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its results are licensed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing, Ecosia has little control over what’s shown. Kroll is ready …
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