News

“You cannot replace urgency, a sense of urgency with AI. You cannot replace what's going on in the moment with AI. So to me, I think one of the categories that's going to be more valuable than ever is news.”

“AI bots and personal assistants will gain more traction in 2024 with up-to-date news and sport an important use case – raising existential questions about intellectual property.”

“Social Media Starts to Feel Less Relevant Over the past few years, social networks have done two big things: 1) Divided their audiences up among more players, and 2) Moved away from news. Apps you once used to find out what was going on in your community, country and around the world started to ignore your follow signal and began showing you what they thought you’d spend time with. Out went the local reporter, in came the Costco guys. These social networks are sacrificing urgency for engagement, and there’s a hidden cost to that. There will be some exceptions, but the “'global town squares' of ol'” will start feel less relevant to important, global events.”