Winning at AI relies on publisher partnerships

AI could be the most ruthless disruptor the news business has ever faced, and it could also be the industry’s best hope to save and sustain itself...

As a journalist-turned-AI entrepreneur I have a front row seat to the tech-tonic shifts that are driving change in the media.

I was heading digital at News UK when a still-small Google came to us for help. I pitched a social start-up before Facebook, then saw News Corp splurge £433 million on MySpace. My warnings about programmatic ads were brushed aside…