The agency keeping creators off the ‘influencer cliff’
…Two days ago, I interviewed the CEO of Digitas, a huge ad agency. She’s great. And she’s a tech CEO. She thinks about data, and scale, and platforms and that…
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Welcome to the personal software revolution
…devices to stay in sync with a database, with some level of security … you’re talking developer primitives,” says Maggie Appleton, a designer and digital anthropologist currently working at GitHub Next. Appleton…
The things we’re building
…What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / scouring estate sales for this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it…
The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs
…but it’s a hard change to make. * As a result, I mostly read books in the Kindle app, but all of the rest of my digital reading happens in Readwise Reader…
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…recording him?” You have social dynamics that change because you’re recording everything all the time, because these systems need the same data that you have. Meta has a whole bundle…
Why IBM’s CEO doesn’t think current AI tech can get to AGI
…The data changes. The tasks change. If I have to redo all that human labeling, relearning, and retraining, I’m calling that bespoke and fragile. So, the return was always a little…
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
…data centers needed. Actually, I want to come to AI. The reason I’m just laying this all out is because you have a new source of revenue that changes your…
Film
…WBD Shareholders Approve Sale To Paramount In Key Vote [ Deadline ] Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 22 Why the long face? The latest poster for DC Studios’ upcoming Clayface movie — out October 23rd — from…
Uber employees have a Dara AI
…Has your fundamental framework changed? The fundamental framework has not changed. Now, I will tell you that I am pushing the company in something that we talked about, taking smart risks. The…
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…the big movie studios and the big tech companies to fundamentally change how browsers work to add something called digital rights management to browsers. That’s the thing that is supposed to…