Hi, it’s Jamie, Senior Intern at the CDP Institute Department of the Obvious. Today we have a report from the Content Marketing Institute that finds nearly half (46%) of writers and editors are worried that generative AI will reduce their income and almost as many (45%) think it will reduce the number of jobs in their field. The only thing that’s not obvious is why 17% of respondents aren’t worried about AI at all.
When IBM bought The Weather Company in 2015, it seemed an odd fit but made sense as supporting an internet-of-things, big data, analytical business. But IBM’s latest positioning is a “hybrid cloud and AI” company, so they are selling most Weather Company assets to private equity firm Francisco Partners, which has its fingers in many tech company pies. IBM will keep The Weather Company’s environmental intelligence suite and retain access to weather data.
Few things are as obvious as X/Twitter’s friendliness to hate groups under Elon Musk’s management. But research firm Media Matters still took a close look, and found ads from major national advertisers including The New York Times, Amazon, and Office Depot were appearing next to a pro-Nazi account. The report came within days of entirely non-obvious claims by CEO Linda Yaccarino that X/Twitter is more brand-safe than ever.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.