FLUX.1 [dev] Medium shot. The head of a llama peeks up from behind an open newspaper. The front page of the newspaper has a headline that says “Publishing”. The background is a busy New York street, people bustling to work, morning sunshine, adding to the overall feeling of a new day.

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210565/reddit-microsoft-anthropic-perplexity-pay-ai-search 

Perplexity brings ads to AI search, revenue-sharing with publishers – Fast Company

Why Big Tech Wants to Make AI Cost Nothing

Attribution is Dying. Clicks are Dying. Marketing is Going Back to the 20th Century. – SparkToro

“tiktok makes up almost 25% of microsoft’s revenue from reselling openai models, and as of march total revenue was only $83 million a month” / X

“😂 even TikTok became a ChatGPT wrapper in the end. And Zhang Yiming was a true pioneer in last generation ML work. Now it’s just a distribution channel. The difficulty collapse comes for us all in the end.” / X

“5 key takeaways: 🚀 LLMs could make 83% of reporter tasks and 76% of editor tasks way more efficient. “It’s important to emphasize that these figures are fundamentally about augmentation rather than automation”. 🧩 Four emerging job clusters to consider: AI-doers, AI-users,” / X

“Every company is full of secret cyborgs. When I give talks, people always come up afterwards to confess they have automated their work and don’t want to tell anyone. I wrote about incentives last year:

“Perplexity just introduced a “Publishers’ Program” to share ad revenue with media partners The program includes cash advances on future revenue as Perplexity builds its advertising model, set to launch in September

The $600 Billion Digital Ad Business Is Hanging on a Few Words From Google – WSJ

Ghostery’s CEO says regulation won’t save us from ad trackers | TechCrunch

“@dr_cintas Leonardo Ai just announced its acquisition by Canva — aiming to accellerate innovation and expand research. It’s been impressive to watch this grow!

Supercharging Leonardo.Ai’s Innovation with Canva | A New Era of Creativity – https://leonardo.ai/news/supercharging-leonardo-with-canva/

“Alongside OpenAI’s SearchGPT, Microsoft’s Bing is testing a new generative search experience It combines traditional search results with AI-generated content — aiming to reshape how users interact with search engines.

Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search

“GenAI could boost the efficiency of a majority of editorial tasks in journalism. But that means recruiting, hiring, and retaining people with a host of AI skills. So, how is the labor market in the news industry evolving post ChatGPT? Read here:

3 new Chrome AI features for even more helpful browsing – https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-ai-features-august-2024-update/ 

YouTube’s war on ad blockers continues, now making ads truly unskippable | Mashable

A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money – WSJ

A Visual Guide to Quantization – by Maarten Grootendorst 

“Someone is going to figure out a clever way to incentivize employees to share their AI productivity gains and lessons learned with their boss. But for now it feels like the right answer is to keep your mouth shut!” / X

X’s new data-sharing experience will train Grok with your Twitter data by default — Here’s how to disable it | Windows Central

Here’s how to disable X (Twitter) from using your data to train its Grok AI | TechCrunch

Introducing the Perplexity Publishers’ Program

“A core belief at Perplexity is that everyone should have access to relevant and accurate information on the topics that matter to them. To ensure that publishers can benefit as Perplexity grows, today we’re excited to launch our publishers program with our first partners: @TIME,https://twitter.com/perplexity_ai/status/1818271013601513795

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