SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022. fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

A warm Digiday welcome to Allison Nicole Smith, who’s joined Modern Retail to cover e-commerce!

I’ve been wanting someone to make an audio-focused app for years!

Excited to try out Airchat and equally excited to see Anthony Ha’s byline back at TechCrunch!

'It’s the f*ing Thunderdome.'

If you want to know what happens when Trump goes on trial in New York next week, Frank G. Runyeon Mike Sisak 🗒️ Molly Crane-Newman are mandatory follows. They know NY courtroom reporting better than anyone vanityfair.com/news/trump-tri…

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>35 authors listed on this new Digital Journalism article. Good to see those behind the data collection in the 37 countries analysed getting credit. Such important, internationally-comparative research couldn’t happen without the hard work behind that data!

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Great talk about journalism & AI happening Monday at the French Embassy in NYC. (And if anyone hasn't been to Albertine, it's worth a visit!)

Bit of a Friday scoop… Elon Musk wants to make Grok AI an option for X premium users to compose tweets. Musk told engineers do it a few months ago, and according to a source, the team is stalling. fortune.com/2024/04/12/elo…

My colleague kristina monllos wrote about Dove's new pledge to 'never use AI' in the beauty brand's communications. digiday.com/marketing/dove…

Lots of good stuff in the Competition & Markets Authority's latest report on competition in AI, especially this graphic illustrating how the tech giants have wrapped their tentacles around practically every single meaningful independent competitor out there.

A couple of other thoughts (1/4).