Who is your most important reader segment? Publishers are likely to have different answers, but for too many of them, for too long, the honest answer to that would have been “the crawler.” That’s the view of Puneet Gupt, COO of Times Internet, the digital arm of India’s largest media company, The Times Group. “It’s…
Both Washington and Silicon Valley are in the midst of a collective freak-out over China’s recent advancements in artificial intelligence. The release of the new AI model, Kimi K3, has reignited concerns in Washington and Silicon Valley that China’s AI capabilities are catching up fast to the United States. US concerns about Chinese AI can…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: It’s clearer than ever that President Donald Trump has no way out on Iran. What’s happening? Over the weekend, Trump posted to social…
This article is from a series we are publishing in advance of the FIPP World Congress in Madrid, 12-15 October. By Joanna Cummings There can be a temptation in publishing to respond to disruption by doing more: launching new products, experimenting with new platforms and chasing new audiences. Erika Heilman thinks focus begins with saying no. As…
The International Criminal Court is in the trenches right now. Last week, its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was voted out of his position. In a first-of-its-kind vote, 82 member states decided that he engaged in misconduct and a serious breach of duty. The vote comes after he was accused of sexual misconduct by a female…
For Christian Bredlow, AI isn’t publishing’s first disruption – and it certainly won’t be its last. Having spent years leading digital initiatives within the media industry, he believes the lessons publishers learned during the shift from print to digital are just as relevant today as they were two decades ago. Today, AI is prompting organisations…
By Bihag Karnani As a senior product manager at Google, Bihag Karnani oversees the development of Reader Revenue Manager – a digital subscription service designed specifically for media companies. On average, he meets with approximately 50 to 70 publishers during the course of a year. In Part 1, we examined first-party data and habit formation…
The AI industry’s investors and critics don’t agree on much. But many in each camp share at least one basic conviction: America’s top labs are about to make a killing. Capital markets have signaled their faith in Anthropic and OpenAI’s impending hyper-profitability, valuing each at nearly $1 trillion. Many of Silicon Valley’s progressive adversaries also…
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. During his campaign to become mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani famously vowed that he’d arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the next time he visited the Big Apple. This…
There was a backup plan for getting oil out of the Middle East. We may need another one. After staying relatively quiet for much of the Iran war, Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a major escalation last last week by carrying out attacks on Saudi tankers and oil infrastructure, threatening a return to the campaign against…