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ChatGPT's traffic surge is good news for brands. For publishers, it's complicated
OpenAI made a change to how ChatGPT links to websites in the spring, and barely anybody noticed. Starting on May 7, ChatGPT began sending considerably more traffic to websites. Referrals jumped 157% overnight and have stayed there, according to new…
AI Copyright Law: How Publishers Can Manage Risks And Ensure Transparency
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the publishing landscape, a new report underscores the critical need for publishers to implement robust governance and transparency measures to navigate the evolving AI copyright framework and protect…
Hinge to publish first audiobook based on true love stories
Nicola Dinan © Stuart Simpson Hinge has announced it will release its first ever audiobook as part of its ongoing No Ordinary Love campaign, to “celebrate the unexpected twists of real love stories”. The campaign originated as a…
World Rugby rankings change published as Wales reinstatement announced
World Rugby has announced changes to the global rankings as it confirmed Wales have climbed back into the world's top 10 for the first time in more than two years despite not playing a single minute of rugby. Steve Tandy's side have been handed a…
Common Crawl Published a Manual for Being Visible to AI. I Automated It. - Suganthan
Every month, a nonprofit called Common Crawl fetches over 2 billion web pages and gives the copy away to anyone who wants it. That free archive is where most AI training data starts. When Mozilla audited the LLMs released between 2019 and 2023, 64%…
Publishers maintaining clear AI-use records better placed to manage legal, commercial risks: Report
Publishers that maintain clear records, adopt carefully drafted AI-specific provisions and require transparent disclosure of AI use will be better placed to manage legal and commercial risks, as the copyright framework around artificial…
Six ATS platforms publish their job boards as open JSON. Here are the endpoints.
Most 'job scraping' tutorials teach you to render a careers page in a headless browser and pick apart the HTML. For the majority of company career pages, that is unnecessary. The page you are trying to scrape is itself a client-side app calling a…
GTA 6 sales predicted, and the numbers will absolutely blow your mind
We always knew that GTA 6 was going to sell an absolute metric tonne of copies, but early revenue estimates from publisher Take-Two have blown even our most wild predictions out of the water. As revealed in a recent earnings report, Take-Two claims…
Why Greece's $1 billion feta industry could be at risk
Greece produces more authentic feta cheese than any other country. The cheese is so valuable, it's nicknamed 'white gold.' But two forces are threatening Greece's historical grip on feta. A pair of diseases has led to the death of hundreds of…
How I Picked My Publisher
In 2021, I sat across from two literary agents who had the same reaction before I'd even finished my pitch. People are tired of Facebook, they told me. Nobody wants another book about that place. I remember nodding along, like maybe they had a…
That New Trend Of AI Recruiting Other AI To Be Partners In Crime And Jointly Commit Cyberattacks
AI is enlisting other AI to aid in committing cyberhacks. In today's column, I examine a newly emerging trend in which generative AI and large language models (LLMs) recruit other LLMs as joint partners to commit cyberattacks as a formidable force.
Market Leaders Are Built Through Education, Not Just Innovation
Gregory Lipich, Chief Commercial Officer at FIXAR, Autonomous Drones for First-Responders, Defense and Commercial Missions After performing the as-yet-unwritten song 'Johnny B. Goode,' Back to the Future protagonist Marty McFly looks out at a crowd…
3 key details about what Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the AI future would look like for you
Mark Zuckerberg says the future should come with a personal AI agent that knows you, works for you, and never clocks out. In a 6,500-word blog post published Monday, the Meta CEO laid out his case for 'personal superintelligence,' which centers on…
Millions of burnt books show how 'war of endurance' is hurting Ukraine
Viktor Kruhlov, director of Ranok, one of Ukraine's largest children's publishers, struggled to hold back tears as he watched pile after pile of his books turn to ash. 'It's a terrible sight to see books burning,' he said. A Russian drone strike on…
Italy Fines Utility €5 Million on 2022 Power Market Manipulation
Italy's energy regulator fined A2A SpA €5 million ($5.8 million) for market manipulation dating back to Europe's energy crisis in 2022, finding that the company held back some gas plants from the market, pushing power prices higher. The…
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