Austen Allred, founder of BloomTech (formerly Lamba School), a coding bootcamp that offered 'income share' on future salaries in lieu of tuition is banned from student lending for 10 years and BloomTech must let students currently under contract withdraw. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…

When ProPublica began reporting on the Supreme Court, Justin Elliott and Josh Kaplan had no sources at all. But they made >1,000 calls.

“Many, many, many, many people said no to us, or just didn’t return our calls.”

So they kept calling.
The Journalist's Resource
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After several #ted2024 talks on the power of AI, Helen Toner calls for AI companies to share information on what they are building, how they are managing risks and allowing outside auditors 'so they aren't grading their own work.'

some NeWs: Instagram is testing AI chatbots with influencers that would let creators entirely automate their responses to fans via DMs and eventually comments

the bots would be trained on an influencers DM conversations

by Sapna Maheshwari and me

nytimes.com/2024/04/15/tec…

“It took me two days, $105 and no expertise whatsoever to launch a fully automated, AI-generated local news site capable of publishing thousands of articles a day…nearly all rewritten without credit from legitimate news sources.” wsj.com/politics/how-i…

Listen 🎧: AI companies need a lot of data to train their models, but demand could exceed the supply within two years. Deepa Seetharaman tells Alex Ossola how AI firms are preparing for a potential data shortage. link.chtbl.com/WSJTechNewsBri…

A+ white house pool report yesterday

I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Insatiable’ Energy Needs Not Sustainable, Arm CEO Says wsj.com/tech/ai/artifi…

Here's an alternative for CEOs. Pick 3-5 journalists, read their stuff, learn things, send them an email:

'Hi I'm Tk. I do TK. I'm here to help if I can and I've worked here (mention companies) and I've got expertise around (mention spaces). How can I help you?

Here's my…

Back to work today after two weeks off, traveling with family in Italy. Our brood was 11 people ranging in age from 8 months to 81 years. We stayed in a couple haunted Airbnbs & it poured rain during our most important activities: seeing Michelangelo’s David in Florence, a…

It turns out the data bottleneck problem is more dire than initially thought:

AI model performance - which can be largely attributed to the presence of test concepts within their vast pretraining datasets - increases linearly with exponentially more data.

RIP: Scaling laws

New w/ Emily Chang: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told Bloomberg today that if OpenAI *does* train its models with YouTube videos, that would be a 'clear violation' of the platform's terms of service.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan tells me exclusively — if OpenAI is using YouTube videos to train Sora, that would be a “clear violation” of their policies (with Davey Alba)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

An Easter treat: I texted with Ben Smith about faith and journalism.

Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years (Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal)

wsj.com/tech/ai/for-da…
techmeme.com/240401/p5#a240…

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