Transformer seeks a managing editor
Transformer is seeking a Managing Editor to grow our coverage of transformative AI systems into the world’s leading publication for AI decision-makers. You’ll help run our growing newsroom, commission and edit a team of staff reporters and freelancers, produce your own original journalism, and help manage Transformer’s growth. Compensation: $100,000 – $145,000 (£77,000 – £112,000). For […]
Bloomberg has a rocky start with AI summaries
Bloomberg, the financial news powerhouse, has been experimenting with using artificial intelligence to help produce its journalism, but it hasn’t always gone smoothly, reports Katie Robertson of The New York Times. Robertson reports, “The news outlet has had to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year. One happened on Wednesday, when Bloomberg […]
Business Insider’s Russell to cover AI’s impact on professional services
Business Insider senior tech reporter Melia Russell is moving to a new beat to cover how artificial intelligence is transforming legal and professional services. She has been writing news and features about startups and venture capital, focused on growth-stage companies, the funding deals that investors are clamoring to get into, and corporate culture. Her work has uncovered […]
TechCrunch senior enterprise editor Lardinois joins The New Stack
Frederic Lardinois, senior enterprise editor at TechCrunch, has left to join The New Stack as its senior editor for artificial intelligence. He had been at TechCrunch for 13 years. “When I joined in 2011, TC had just gone through a difficult transition and I wasn’t even sure how long the company would last, but I […]
Wiggers named AI editor at TechCrunch
Kyle Wiggers has been named artificial intelligence editor at TechCrunch. He has been a senior enterprise reporter at the tech news organization. Wiggers previously wrote about artificial intelligence for VentureBeat and lives in New York City. He previously was an SEO editor for Fatherly and also worked at XDA Developers and Digital Trends. He is a […]
How Dow Jones is expanding its AI marketplace
Dow Jones, the parent company to the Wall Street Journal, has quietly built an AI marketplace for publishers to license their content to corporations, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer writes, “The initiative, which sits under Dow Jones’ business information and research company Factiva, now has nearly 5,000 publishing partners, up from nearly 4,000 in November and 2,000 […]
Crunchbase is using AI to predict company funding
Crunchbase is using artificial intelligence to predict when startups will raise funding, get acquired or hit the public markets, reports Belle Lin of The Wall Street Journal. Lin reports, “Like other startups that have been challenged by the emergence of generative AI, Crunchbase needed to pivot. At a leadership meeting convened to discuss its future, McConnell said the team decided […]
Business Insider joins AI lawsuit against Cohere
Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Team, This morning, Business Insider — together with other publications in the News/Media Alliance — filed a lawsuit against Cohere, an AI company that has been taking and using our journalism without permission. I have long shared that AI is both […]
Reuters parent wins AI lawsuit
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States, reports Kate Knibbs of Wired. Knibbs reports, “In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented AI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. In the complaint, Thomson Reuters claimed the AI firm reproduced materials from its legal research firm Westlaw. Today, a […]
TechCrunch seeks a senior reporter to cover AI
TechCrunch is seeking a Senior Writer who’s deeply intrigued by the AI arms race and can distill it into compelling stories for a diverse audience: from seasoned founders and investors to those just beginning to grasp tech’s influence on the world. Bonus points if you can cover a broad range of topics with authority and […]
