Perplexity is working on revenue sharing deals with high quality publishers to make citations more prominent, but AI companies scraping publishers' content to create news articles and videos could be detrimental for journalism and content creators. The New York Times article highlights a YouTube video critiquing Disney's Star Wars Hotel, exposing how corporations can exploit fan loyalty. Instagram is testing unskippable ads to force users to view ads, potentially reducing screen time. A study suggests elephants have names and call each other by those names, supported by AI evidence published in the journal Nature, Ecology, and Evolution.
This week we go to Cupertino, Calif., for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference and talk with Tripp Mickle, a New York Times reporter, about all of the new features Apple announced and the company’s giant leap into artificial intelligence. Then, we explore what was another tumultuous week for Elon Musk, who navigated a shareholders vote to re-approve his massive compensation package at Tesla, amid new claims that he had sex with subordinates at SpaceX. And finally — let’s play HatGPT.
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