Fri. 05/12 – Twitter Has A New CEO

Elon says he’s hired a new CEO for Twitter, and folks think they know who this person will be. The Claude chatbot has expanded so much you can now write entire novels with it. Seeing what Meta is doing with AI in ads makes me wonder about the future of all media. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter (TechCrunch)
• Linda Yaccarino Leaves NBCUniversal Amid Talks to Become Twitter CEO (WSJ)
• Anthropic’s latest model can take ‘The Great Gatsby’ as input (TechCrunch)
• Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (TechCrunch)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• End of the Billable Hour? Law Firms Get On Board With Artificial Intelligence (WSJ)
• “We Were Always Playing An Entirely Different Game”: The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News (BuzzFeed News)
• Taiwan Is Running Low on a Strategic Asset: Engineers (NYTimes)
• The Plot to Steal the Other Secret Inside a Can of Coca-Cola (Bloomberg)