As major media companies eye consolidation, Ferguson has signaled that he will be more lenient that Lina Khan, the FTC chair under President Joe Biden. Punchbowl News last week reported on a pitch made to Trump’s team for Ferguson, and it included the argument that he would stop Khan’s “war on mergers.” He also said he would “protect freedom of speech and fight wokeness” and that he would “fight back against the trans agenda.”
Source: Donald Trump Appoints Andrew Ferguson As Next Chair Of Federal Trade Commission
Of note, Murray said that audiobooks continue to outsell e-books in terms of total revenues and are helping to offset declines from lagging e-book sales. In terms of AI, the CEO declined to discuss specifics of licensing deals, like the one it signed with Microsoft for AI model training, citing NDAs, but stressed that it’s early days for AI licensing, calling it a “fascinating time” in the industry.
Paul McCartney has backed calls for laws to stop mass copyright theft by companies building generative artificial intelligence, warning AI “could just take over.” The former Beatle said it would be “a very sad thing indeed” if young composers and writers could not protect their intellectual property from the rise of algorithmic models, which so far have learned by digesting mountains of copyrighted material.
Music is an inherent part of video games. Moreover, the way music operates inside video games will be a guiding light for the future of music creation. Especially when it comes to procedural music, it’s clear that this has been setting a precedent for understanding music as more fluid intellectual property. The listener becomes an influential element in how the music develops and they shape the sounds to their wants and needs.
Apollo Research tested six frontier models for “in-context scheming” — a model’s ability to take action they haven’t been given directly and then lie about it. After being told to achieve a certain goal “at all costs,” evaluators introduce contradictory information to see if the model will remove any restrictions in its path and deceive developers.
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, is expanding its publisher program, with the LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and a dozen other news outlets signing up. Publishers will share in revenue generated by ads on Perplexity, and receive metrics to track their content’s performance — as long as they don’t withdraw.
OpenAI launched its video-generating tool, 
Reddit Answers will respond to users’ questions with summaries of conversations from across the social media platform, and provide links to relevant communities and posts, the company said. The chatbot can also make recommendations and suggest follow-up questions. With the AI chatbot, Reddit users can skip using Google search or OpenAI’s ChatGPT to find information and discussions on Reddit.