Open AI’s o1-preview beat established chess engine Stockfish by cheating. Without human prompting, o1-preview hacked the file system that controlled the game and rewrote the score in its favor. It’s not the first instance of deceptive behavior by an AI, but there’s no cause for alarm, right?
Visual content giants Getty Images and Shutterstock have entered into an agreement to execute “a merger of equals.” Getty Images Holdings, as it will be known, will have a value of approximately $3.7 billion. The combined entity will be in a stronger position to deal with the disruptions caused by generative AI use of copyrighted content.
Meta has fully embraced its role as a right-wing propaganda outlet by loosening community guidelines and replacing third-party fact checkers with X-style community notes. “Too much censorship,” chirped Chairman Mark Zuckerberg. X ad revenue fell by half after it adopted the community notes approach.
Changes in marketing channels and data access have made advertising measurement more important, and challenging, than ever. Taking advantage of growing interest in the topic, Bain Capital is selling Kantar Group’s audience measurement division, Kantar Media, to global investment firm H.I.G. Capital for “approximately $1 billion”. Kantar Media accounts for 4,500 of Kantar Group’s 25,000 employees.