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Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot: "For Google, that might be failure mode...but for us, that is success," says the Post's Vineet Khosla
Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all: Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won't block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?
Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would: "The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm."
BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source: The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question: Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend: "The strength of weak ties" applies to misinformation, too.
Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it: "We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it."
Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract: Ziff Davis can’t lay off workers or decrease their salary due to generative AI, according to the tentative contract.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s editor believes print remains the ultimate “distraction-free news product”: "I've joked about Businessweek(ish); I don't think that one was really considered."
The Copa, Euro, and Wimbledon finals collide on July 14. Here’s how The Athletic is preparing for its “biggest day ever.”: The Athletic intends to use its live coverage as a "shop window,” giving new readers a taste of what they might get if they subscribed.