FT names Criddle its chief AI correspondent
Cristina Criddle has been named chief artificial intelligence correspondent at The Financial Times. She is based in San Francisco and has been at the FT since late 2021. Criddle previously was a technology reporter at BBC News. She has also worked as a producer/reporter for the BBC and was a reporter at The Telegraph. She has also […]
Reuters adds content to an AI application
Reuters announced its content is now available on the Databricks AI application. Databricks customers can use Reuters coverage of geopolitics, markets and business to ground their AI systems. The content dates back to 1987, available in five languages. Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data, analytics and artificial intelligence. “Enterprises building AI systems to […]
Bosa’s new show on AI premieres today
“Deirdre Bosa Live,” a new Yahoo Finance show covering AI and technology, will launch on Monday at 4 p.m. ET. The show is broadcast from a new Yahoo Finance studio in San Francisco. It closes out every market day with interviews with the executives, investors, and founders driving some of the most important shifts in […]
Globe and Mail hires Hemmadi to cover AI
The Globe and Mail has hired Murad Hemmadi to cover artificial intelligence. He has been at The Logic covering artificial intelligence and linked technologies. Hemmadi wrote about the companies building businesses in these spaces, the investors funding them, the policies promoting and regulating them, and the impacts they have on people and economies. Before joining The Logic in 2018, Hemmadi […]
WSJ’s AI tool Doppler is creating stories
The Wall Street Journal published in late September its first story using Doppler News AI, a custom tool built to help expand the publication’s midterms coverage, reports Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab. Deck reports, “So far, Doppler has ingested more than 25 million TikTok videos, roughly 500,000 podcast episodes, and thousands of Instagram videos and cable news […]
Chong to cover AI and data centers in China for The Information
Claudia Chong has been hired by The Information to cover artificial intelligence and data centers in China. She also may report on topics including chip smuggling and crypto. Chong joins The Information from S-RM, a UK-based risk advisory firm where she specialized in APAC disputes, investigations, and corporate due diligence. Prior to that, she worked […]
Bloomberg doubles down on conversational AI
Bloomberg said it is making its conversational artificial-intelligence interface, ASKB, available to all users, reports Steve Rosenbush of The Wall Street Journal. Rosenbush reports, “The business and financial information giant began rolling out ASKB to users in a limited fashion early this year, and it is now used by more than one-third of all Bloomberg Terminal subscribers. […]
NY Times hires Weinberg from The Information
The New York Times has hired The Information reporter Cory Weinberg to cover Anthropic, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker. He has been covering Anthropic for The Information since June. Before that, he was deputy bureau chief of finance coverage and has been a senior reporter covering initial public offerings. He has been at The Information for more than a decade. Weinberg […]
Business Insider launching an AI legal newsletter
Business Insider plans to launch a weekly newsletter covering artificial intelligence and the legal industry. It will publish on Mondays. “AI is forcing a reckoning over how legal work gets done and what it costs.,” said Business Insider correspondent Melia Robinson, who will write the newsletter, on LinkedIn. “Some see a chance to make law […]
Quartz content produced by prolific, AI-assisted reporter
Business news website Quartz is using a single, hugely prolific journalist heavily aided by AI to produce nearly all its daily website reporting, reports Rob Waugh of Press Gazette. Waugh writes, “But the strategy for the Quartz website appears to be one of filling it with cheaply produced AI-assisted content which mostly consists of rewrites from other […]
