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An interview with Reach CEO Piers North about traffic from Google Discover falling ~50% in H2 2025, potential deals with AI companies, and more (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/reach-ceo-piers…

Reach CEO Piers North says AI approach 'mixture of courtship and courts'
Reach was not overly reliant on Google Discover but took "advantages of opportunities as they come", CEO Piers North said as referrals fell.

It seems to me that those who value results are more likely to delve into using AI than those who value process.
I work with fine arts education—filmmaking—and for me, process is *everything*. And so AI becomes marginal, at best. But I can see lots of use cases—also in filmmaking—where AI can help achieve a result more efficiently.

"This film was made without AI": https://www.thisfilmwasmadewithoutai.com/
"Public domain community intros to mark and celebrate projects/films/art/animation/etc which are Al free. With hundreds of intentional artists of various mediums participating (and over 500 hours of human w…

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116341108333633352
Oh, to be the traffic engineer who has to testify on behalf of the city that yes, a giant inflatable penis could distract drivers enough to cause a crash 🤡

Today, the filling level of Dutch gas storages reached a new historic low: 4.95%. Currently, the forward market prices give no incentive to fill up for winter, but government has previously concluded that by 1 November, we'll need a filling level of 80%.
That's going to be a challenge.
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Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-raising-prices-second-ti…

Netflix Raising U.S. Prices for Second Time in a Year
Netflix, for the second time in a little over a year, is raising prices for its three plans in the U.S.

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322
I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?
We are still very, _very_ early in this.
But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.
And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.

48 hour film festival's AI rule. I think it says a lot as to what is and isn't allowed. Some of it might just be pragmatic, but some of it may also reflect values of what is considered central and what more peripheral?

Future says Google traffic fell 20% in the six months to March 31, a sharp acceleration on the year to September 2025; FUTR falls 25% to its lowest since 2017 (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/why-future-share-…

Future share price plummets after warning Google traffic loss has worsened
Why Future share price is so low. CEO issues update to market about impact of falling Google referral traffic.

Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-raising-prices-second-ti…

Netflix Raising U.S. Prices for Second Time in a Year
Netflix, for the second time in a little over a year, is raising prices for its three plans in the U.S.