Bloomberg and colleagues discuss Adobe's Firefly training on Midjourney Images. (Pixel Laundering) Listen to the recording of the chat.

We warned Adobe about this last year. Wacom's marketing campaign and use Adobe's Ai dragon is also mentioned.

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Would people be interested in a Spaces on this shortly?

Brody Ford i really want you to be able to read this piece in its entirety, so here is a gift link. please check it out!
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🚨Scoop from me and Brody Ford: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: Adobe's been keeping a little secret about its AI. Its Firefly model was branded as more ethical than rivals like Midjourney. But it was actually trained on images from them. With Rachel Metz bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Every spring, high schoolers make one of the most consequential financial decisions of their lives: where to go to college.

Many enroll at the most selective school they were admitted to. But Bloomberg Wealth found that prestige doesn't always pay off. Thread 👇
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Friday scoop: Ares, Blue Owl lead a $4.8 billion private credit deal for Novo Holdings buyout of Catalent Pharma — one of the biggest of all time. With Ellen Schneider and John Sage: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A group of Facebook employees invested millions with a co-worker. Then, they lost everything.
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Super excited to interview Meta’s Chris Cox alongside Tom Giles at the Bloomberg Technology Summit! Really stellar lineup of speakers coming together… see you there!!
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after years of letting private e-filing companies dominate the market, the IRS launched a new free e-filing option this year.

our episode on how it got started, how it's going — and where it might go from here, featuring Brody Ford Erin Slowey: omny.fm/shows/the-big-…

Can't recommend Kurt Wagner's new book enough. So much more to the Twitter story than I realized.

New story for Businessweek

This wok is light, solidly-built, made in the US, and sold by a woman-owned, small business

It USED to be Wirecutter's top pick

Good luck buying one.

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Great spending time Brody Ford !

Clickbait headline aside (🤣)- a great article on Salesforce's use of Einstein as a distinctive asset amid the war for AI relevance. B2B doesn't need to be boring.

Full credit to Marc Benioff on this one. Genius move.

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Salesforce paid more than $20 million for the rights to slap a cuddly Albert Einstein face on its artificial intelligence efforts.
Giving the world: “Everyone’s an Einstein with Salesforce,' etc: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Source: Salesforce paid $20M+ to license Einstein's image in a 2016 deal, hoping to gain an edge in the AI market; proceeds go to Jerusalem's Hebrew University (@brodyford_ / Bloomberg)

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