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Have Pocasts reached their peak? / #
For the first time in years the numbers of adults in the U.S. is decreasing - as well as the numbers of published Podcasts.

TikTok Tries to Win Allies in the U.S. With More Transparency / #
Two years into negotiations with U.S. regulators about whether TikTok will be able to remain in the country, Chinese-owned video-sharing app is trying a new tack: transparency. The plan to reorganize the business might cost up to $1.5 billion US-$.

Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach / #
With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.

"We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging Stable Diffusion's visual A.I. violating the rights of artists" / #
A team around Matthew Butterick has filed a lawsuit in U.S. seeking compensation for damages caused by Stability AI, DeviantArt, and Midjourney.

Twitter offers free ads to brands that advertise on its platform / #
The offer for free advertisements is an attempt to woo brands back to the social-media platform, which has seen its ad business deteriorate following Elon Musk's takeover.

Hate speech rises on Twitter in its largest markets after Musk takeover / #
The moderation cuts at Twitter boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service's 280M DAUs live, new research shows.

Tesla’s big price cuts mean ‘a major shift in the EV market’ / #
Can Tesla remain the leader in the modern electric vehicle market it effectively created?

Virtual Cringe: The 10 Lamest Corporate Metaverse Stunts / #
For a minute, the Metaverse was very exciting to any big company with a marketing budget. But while the momentum died down, gizmodo.com collected the most tiring examples from the Metaverse Department of Marketing.

Users Spent More Time on Social Apps Than Ever in 2022, New Report Reveals / #
There are a number of metrics that can be used to determine how successfully various platforms are performing, and perhaps the most important metric of all is that of time spent on the app.

Twitter Invites Businesses to Sign-Up for ‘Verification for Organizations’ / #
Twitter is now inviting businesses to sign-up for its coming 'Verification for Organizations' subscription offering, which will replace the current verification process.

Deconstructing ‘The Twitter Files’ / #
The bombast with which the so-called Twitter Files have been released is incongruous with the mundanity of their content.

What If Tesla Is…Just a Car Company? / #
Tesla’s aura as an elite tech disrupter dims as EV competitors multiply and improve their offerings. Musk’s messy involvement with Twitter isn’t helping.

Short mobile video a la TikTok now dominates the work of internet creators / #
Social media users now spend 3.1 billion hours daily watching user-generated content on apps like TikTok and YouTube - and this has an impact of how Creators, from photographers to any other, work.

Galloway, die Propaganda-Maschine Tiktok und die allgegenwärtige KI / #
Marketing-Professor und Tech-Vordenker Scott Galloway gibt beim DLD seine Prognosen für das Jahr 2023 ab.

Microsoft aquires a part of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for about 10 billion US-$ investment / #
Microsoft deepens partnership to add GPT to its search and Office suite. OpenAI is valued at 29 billion US-$ at the moment.

Some third-party Twitter apps appear to be broken - and that's bad news, not only for users / #
Even after hours it's not clear if this is a technical problem or a decision by Twitter. Developers say they haven’t heard back from the company about what’s going on. The news is not only bad for Twitter, but also developers who rely their business on Twitter, as well as for Twitter itself, since it can't be seen as a good partner for devs and marketeers anymore.

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