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  1. Technology & Innovation

Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam

Two weeks ago, a podcast with a “top 1%” audience, whose listener net worth averaged $2.5 million, asked me to join as a guest. The host was familiar with my work, citing a recent CNBC appearance, and seemed ready to hold an engaging conversation. It seemed worthwhile, except the podcast was fake.  With a bit […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

EZ Newswire Selected as a Winner of The MBA Fund’s Sixth Annual Pitch Competition

NEW YORK, NY — EZ Newswire, an AI-enabled platform that makes it easy for businesses to create and publish their news, today announced that it was selected as a winner in The MBA Fund’s sixth annual pitch competition for pre-seed and seed startups. In addition to the investment from The MBA Fund, Contour Ventures committed […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

How Meta Built Llama 3

Meta today announced the release of Llama 3, a new set of large language models that it’s immediately baking into its products, including WhatsApp and Messenger.  The company is releasing two smaller models today that it says exceed the performance of its previous Llama 2 model. And it’s still training a third, far more powerful version, […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Keystone’s Michael Cragg Wins Reader’s Choice Award from Concurrences

NEW YORK, NY — Concurrences, the leading antitrust publisher, last week awarded “The Proper Measure of Profits for Assessing Market Power” as the Reader’s Choice Award winner in the “Best Business Article: General Economics” category at the 2024 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. The paper was co-authored by Keystone Senior Partner Michael Cragg, alongside economists Patrick […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Google’s AI Narrative is Starting to Flip

Hours after Google wrapped its major cloud keynote on Tuesday, I sat down for dinner with three public tech company CEOs and a handful of journalists on New York’s West Side. It was the type of gathering happening more frequently in the post-Covid era, where top executives and media meet to discuss the latest AI […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Scope Zero Releases Case Study Highlighting Success of Carbon Savings Account® Pilot with New York Life

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Scope Zero, a financial and environmental wellness platform, today announced that it has released its first case study highlighting the successful 2023 pilot of its Carbon Savings Account® (CSA) with New York Life, the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States. The Carbon Savings Account® (CSA) is an employee […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’s Q&A With Big Technology on AI and Google’s Future

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis / Source: Google Last week, I profiled Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, the Google executive driving the company’s AI strategy. Hassabis is an AI research maverick now tasked with helping Google improve its core products with his groundbreaking models. In our conversation, he shared some facinating thoughts about how to […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Devesh Mishra Appointed President of CoreAI at Keystone

NEW YORK, NY — Keystone announced today the appointment of Devesh Mishra as President and Chief Product and Technology Officer of CoreAI, marking a significant step toward the company’s objective to lead in innovation in artificial intelligence. Mr. Mishra, whose illustrious career spans over two decades in the tech industry, brings a wealth of experience […]
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  1. Data & Insights

BrXnd Marketing X AI Conference Unveils Initial Speakers and Airtable as Title Sponsor

NEW YORK, NY — BrXnd, a leading organization at the intersection of marketing and AI, is pleased to announce the initial lineup of speakers and sponsors for the highly anticipated 2024 BrXnd Marketing X AI Conference, set to take place on May 8 in New York City. Founded in 2022, BrXnd is dedicated to bridging […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Here’s How Google’s Generative AI for Newsrooms Product Will Work

Google is pushing hard on a generative AI product that would help news outlets write, distribute, and monetize their work. “It feels very big,” one person with knowledge of the project told me. “It’s certainly a high priority project,” said another person within Google said.  Subscribe now The initiative has been in the works since […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Will Search Engine Traffic Really Drop 25% by 2026, As Gartner Predicts?

Late last month, Gartner made a stunning prediction, forecasting an imminent and dramatic decline in search engine traffic. “By 2026, traditional search engine volume will drop 25%,” the research firm said. “with search marketing losing market share to AI chatbots and other virtual agents.” The prediction seemed aggressive, especially given that Microsoft Bing — with its […]
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CodingNomads Turns Online Coding Bootcamp Curriculum Inside Out

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — CodingNomads LLC, an online education and training company for software engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence (AI), announced today the release of its new, custom-built online learning platform at codingnomads.com. The new platform opens more than 1,500 pages of written curriculum across 15+ technical courses for free, and learners can subscribe […]
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