If you follow me on Substack or LinkedIn, you may already know that I dropped a new trailer over the weekend for “The AI Artifacts Podcast,” a show that I’m going to co-host with my old friend and former colleague Sarah Luger (PhD). Season 1’s first episode will arrive for Halloween, featuring an intro to … Read moreWhy I’m co-hosting a new AI podcast
Microsoft’s newly closed acquisition of Activision Blizzard isn’t just the software giant’s biggest deal ever. At a cost of $68.7 billion, it’s also the most expensive video game industry acquisition of all time. After the companies first announced their intent in January 2022, regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S., the European … Read moreThe reason Microsoft made Activision Blizzard its largest acquisition ever
The past decade saw a boom in fact-checking organizations across the internet, according to annual census results from the Duke Reporters’ Lab. The momentum seems to have trailed off in the 2020s, however, with the total number of active organizations dedicated to fact-checks staying roughly the same since 2021. The group counted 417 fact-checkers when … Read moreWhat may be behind slumping growth for internet fact-checking