💰 New York Times to Get Around $100 Million From Google Over Three Years
Plus: In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived, The Metaverse, Zuckerber's tech obession, is officially dead ChatGPT killed it, and more...
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New York Times to Get Around $100 Million From Google Over Three Years. The New York Times is getting around $100 million from Google over three years as part of a broad deal that allows the Alphabet unit to feature Times content on some of its platforms, according to people familiar with the matter… (Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal)
Alexandra Bruell: The New York Times’ Google deal is worth around $100 million over three years
In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived. BAMBLE, Norway — About 110 miles south of Oslo, along a highway lined with pine and birch trees, a shiny fueling station offers a glimpse of a future where electric vehicles rule. Chargers far outnumber gasoline pumps at the service area… (Jack Ewing / The New York Times)
Jack Ewing: @jonathanweisman, the amazing thing about @JackEwingNYT's story on the EV takeover of Norway is that Norway has oil, a lot of it. Yet the country is embracing a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels
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The Metaverse, Zuckerber's tech obsession, is officially dead. ChatGPT killed it.The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was three years old. The capital-M Metaverse, a… (Ed Zitron / Insider)
Ed Zitron: declaring the death of the metaverse, a half-concept that was used to rename and redefine a trillion-dollar company and has become a glaring indictment of the tech industry that birthed it
Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams. Platform cracks down on bots posing as listeners as flood of content rattles music industry… (Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times)
Financial Times: The music industry has been confronting the rise of AI-generated songs and, more broadly, the growing number of tracks inundating streaming platforms daily
How Google tried to fix the web - by taking it over. In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along… (David Pierce / The Verge)
David Pierce: @anotherhelen as Google turns 25, The @verge will be examining the influence of Google Search on our culture -- and the existential crisis it faces now
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