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“Journalist Shane Bauer spent four months working within prisons for Corrections Corporation of America, chronicling the brutal conditions for the inmates and the broader failures of the companies running these institutions. The story cost around $350,000 to produce. The banner ads that ran against the story generated around $5,000.”

“Regardless of whether or not JULIA is indeed an actual threat to the Times, the larger question is, is it OK for a chatbot, commercial or otherwise, to link to websites it doesn’t own or control?”

They previously helped lead the New York Times R&D Lab.

“Advertisers can now buy ads across the Guardian’s properties in guaranteed time slots of 10-, 15-, 20- or 30-second fragments, 100 percent in view. The Economist is the first client to buy the Guardian’s ads in this way and will be running a campaign until September.”

“What was once an inspiring effort at transparency enabled by new technologies now seems driven by personal grudge and reckless releases of information.”