AP and OpenAI Forge a Pioneering Partnership

Elon has made good on his promise to share ad revenue with some big Tweeters. The fact that you can’t use Threads in Europe continues to be weird. Meta unveils a new AI image generator that they say is significantly smaller and better. Why AI is at the center of the Hollywood strike part eleven. And one choice Weekend Longreads Suggestion.

Links:

• Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators (TechCrunch)
• Musk's Twitter sues four Texas entities for data scraping, seeks damages (Reuters)
• Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch)
• Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: AP strikes news-sharing and tech deal with OpenAI (Axios)
• Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (The Verge)
• Here’s the new default font for Microsoft Outlook and Word: Aptos (CNBC)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Apple, Lionel Messi and the $2.5bn question: What’s next? (The Athletic)

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