“We have learned that mispronounced foreign words and the wrong stress in words annoy people the most.”

“Data collected in mid-January on 44 top news sites by Ontario-based AI detection startup Originality AI shows that almost all of them block AI web crawlers … But none of the top right-wing news outlets surveyed, including Fox News, the Daily Caller, and Breitbart, block any of the most prominent AI web scrapers.”

“The onslaught of painful headlines is an ominous sign for the broader news industry’s efforts to forge sustainable business models.”

Maher is currently the CEO of Web Summit and previously “completed a highly successful tenure at the Wikimedia Foundation where she drove unprecedented growth in global readership and impact, while doubling fundraising income and raising an endowment to ensure Wikipedia’s enduring sustainability.”

Subscription tracking service Antenna says that’s the biggest sign-up around a “singular programming event” it has ever seen.

Starting Feb. 12, Stewart will host “The Daily Show” each Monday night while also steering the series as an executive producer.

“My priority is making sure this bill does exactly, and only, what it intends: to support our free press and the democracy sustained by it, to make sure publications get paid what they are owed, and to hold our nation’s largest and wealthiest tech companies accountable for repurposing content that’s not theirs.”

“It’s the fact that I’ve had to chase and chase and chase them. I feel bad for being like – ‘Sorry, please can you pay me in the terms that you’ve set out in your contract?’”

“The media company—which includes publishers Deadspin, Quartz, Kotaku, The Root, The Onion and Gizmodo—initially sought a suitor that would acquire its entire stable of brands, according to two sources. But no such buyer materialized, leading the company to explore options to sell the properties on an individual basis. It has placed a particular emphasis on offloading The Onion, which is not profitable, according to two people familiar with its finances.”

“As the Los Angeles Times has declined to really stake a claim to California, others have come in to pick up the slack. That includes CalMatters, which is a nonprofit newsroom based out of Sacramento, and now Politico, which is repeating their playbook from Washington in California. That leaves less space for the Los Angeles Times to reclaim that, which is a lost opportunity.”