Airgap

Journalism’s not dead - $150 million means it’s firing up

#396: A newsletter megadeal with CBS signals the return of personality, ambition, and proof the industry’s pulse is beating again...

Oct 11 •

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1:03:17

Apathy will kill journalism before AI, so let's start trading

#393: Jaded publishers need to remember what life was like before they gave their content away, and Microsoft and Cloudflare just opened a way...

Oct 9 •

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1:02:46

Cloudflare sticks a trillion-dollar roadblock in front of AI

#392: The web's feral with bots looting publishers in a goldrush. Now one company is standing in the way saying it will make AI pay...

Oct 8 •

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30:27

Two AIs ask why Zuck wants us uninformed

Did a realisation of the power of social's influence lead him to step back from his vision for civic responsibility?

Oct 22, 2024 •

7:24

How can we keep Google's best for a better future?

The challenge Judge Amit Mehta now has ahead is how to thread the needle between retaining the web we have and creating space for the web the future…

Aug 12, 2024 •

17:31

Google's monopoly is busted, handing news a chance card

Everyone wants great search and trustworthy news, so here are some ideas how the judge can achieve both, with some radical thinking...

Aug 9, 2024 •

A year ago I predicted AI needed publisher partnerships - was I right?

In my very first newsletter I predicated that AI would be the most ruthless disruptor the news business had ever faced, and its biggest hope, so...

Jul 18, 2024 •

Google's killer AI-steroid is targeting a news site near you

Search as you know it is ending, and being replaced by GenAI results written by Gemini, leaving publishers facing a potentially deadly crisis...

May 15, 2024 •

OpenAI fluffs its lines as model collapse makes a mockery of its flagship

Leadership in AI is back up for grabs as Chat GPT-4o fails to advance, sending Microsoft, Google, and Apple, scrambling to gain ground

May 14, 2024 •

Google tries to kill monopoly claim as revenue rockets to $621,000 a minute

Plus, The Financial Times' agrees to train AI, ChatGPT passes 100 million users, Amazon grows its ad pie, the latest on Airgap, and more...

May 2, 2024 •

Airgap emerges as a solution as publishers noodle over AI deals

Everyone wins when media and tech combine, but when media and tech collide, only tech wins... every time. Now Airgap is offering a solution...

May 1, 2024 •

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