The rage filling your LinkedIn feed this month, the algorithm rants, the Substack discovery complaints, the essays announcing the machines have finally won, is built on real numbers pointed at the wrong conclusion. That is the argument Tony Uphoff made in his Substack post. (Uphoff and I both worked at
OpenAI will begin serving ads to people using ChatGPT across 31 European markets on Monday (August 24), including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The timing lands at the six month mark for OpenAI’s ads business. What started as a U.S. pilot in February
“I made one of my early grotesks into a mono that I had expanded because I liked where it was going, and it became one weight (light), which ended up being available on Solitype, but after the fundraiser was over, it went into the drawer again,” Charlotte says. Last year
I think we’re aiming the machine-access fight at the wrong company. Publishers are deciding whether to block Google’s AI or license to it. Reddit spent part of its July 30 earnings call on exactly that question, and every move at that table gets covered like a summit. Meanwhile, the biggest
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Wednesday (Aug. 19) it will expand its ads pilot to 31 markets across Europe, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Portugal. The pilot was previously only available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
If our coverage of beautiful pens has proven anything over the years, it’s that pen prices can vary wildly. If you really want to, you can pay north of ten grand for a beautiful pen from the likes of Montblanc or Tibaldi, whose diamond-encrusted writing implements certainly sparkle. But you
A lot of marketing teams and individuals assume that a big social presence on Facebook and Instagram means they will get cited in AI answers and AI Overviews. That is not always the case. AI engines cite social content all the time now. However, they do not cite you because
OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT in Europe and is starting where Meta ended up. It is building its European ad business on consent from the start. OpenAI detailed how it will process user data across the region once ads go live later this month in a new European Union
TL;DR Duolingo runs the best shared media engine on the planet—a mascot-driven virality machine that turned a language app into a main character in internet culture. But this month’s PESO Model® Diagnostic finds the fragility hiding beneath the legend: the engine runs on rented land, the personality is concentrated in
