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Professional news: I have two jobs! Very excited to start chatting again. Sara has the backstory below.
You can get tomorrow’s show - an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remnick - and every one after that, for free, by heading here link.chtbl.com/kafka
Big news for media biz: @pkafka bringing his infamous pod back to @voxmedia, rebranding it “Channels”
-He’ll remain w @BusinessInsider
-Will still be a weekly intv show
-Peter will own the show. Vox Media is production, distribution and sales partner
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BI's @dwhate watched 130 campaign ads about AI so you didn't have to.
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"We're trying to get into this space that's a hybrid of what Twitter was, what messaging is and what Reddit has been."
Talked to Threads boss Connor Hayes about the future of his social network - and using the Threads playbook to help launch Muse.
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Come for the trenchant analysis, stay for ultra-flattering selfie of me wearing a face computer.
Meta's new VR goggles are a major upgrade on Apple's failed Vision Pro. Way cheaper ($1300 vs $3500), lighter (they feel like heavy glasses, not a helmet); better interface.
But primary use case is still "watching movies by yourself."
My hands-on: businessinsider.com/meta-vr-…
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Meta's new VR goggles are a major upgrade on Apple's failed Vision Pro. Way cheaper ($1300 vs $3500), lighter (they feel like heavy glasses, not a helmet); better interface.
But primary use case is still "watching movies by yourself."
My hands-on: businessinsider.com/meta-vr-…
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Trump sued famed pollster Ann Selzer and Gannett's Des Moines Register, who do not have the resources that the likes of Paramount and Disney have, but who fought the case instead of folding.
They won today.
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Lots of YouTube updates today, but this is the one that caught my eye: could YT do for micro dramas what it did with podcasts?
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RIP the Podcast Election
We tracked 70K hours of conservative podcasts. They’re not talking about Trump anymore. (w @noslouch @sabrod123)
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Congratulations, you're a manager now! But there's no promotion — or a raise. businessinsider.com/workers-…
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A story about what happens when one of the world's richest men, who has "a good relationship" with Donald Trump, wants something.
Spoiler: He gets it.
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Big news in media land: Paramount has settled with the states.
It will be announced later today.
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Amazon redefined retail, reshaped countless businesses. Now at risk itself from ai shopping agents like Instinct and Muse, which threaten to turn it into a brandless logistics company.
Discussed with @DelRey last week. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Amazon cuts off Muse.
While I am bullish Meta and Muse, I think many people are overlooking the digital knife fight that’s about to occur
Nobody wants to get commoditized or layered here. Let the games begin
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News: Comcast's Universal tells me it is going ahead with plans to release an Elon Musk documentary in theaters. The Hollywood Reporter previously said Universal was having second thoughts, out of fear of upsetting a Trump ally.
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Man, this was fun. Peter is a close friend, yes. But also one of my favorite interviewers on the planet.
Bonus...free month-long trial to The Aisle for Channels listeners: tinyurl.com/The-Aisle-Channe…
The AI shopping era we've been promised might finally be arriving, via bots like Instinct and Meta's Muse.
Retail expert @DelRey explains why it hasn't happened yet, and what happens if it does.
Cc @amazon
Text: businessinsider.com/ai-shopp…
Channels:
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The AI shopping era we've been promised might finally be arriving, via bots like Instinct and Meta's Muse.
Retail expert @DelRey explains why it hasn't happened yet, and what happens if it does.
Cc @amazon
Text: businessinsider.com/ai-shopp…
Channels:
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Different approach than we saw from Murdoch's Fox News a week ago, when AI doom was something that scared the audience.
Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse. Read today's cover here: trib.al/lNmAVwg
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The end of the end of cable TV isn't here but it's getting close.
Alt hed: Cable's good news is that it's only shrinking by 4.6%.
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Flashback to the 2020 Liz Warren/Bill Barr teamup. vox.com/21524791/google-laws…
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First time I've heard this from a publisher. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
In an interview, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says the number of subscribers the outlet gets from Google traffic has grown even as referral traffic has fallen (@pkafka / Business Insider)
(Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)
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