Tootfinder

what a korporate bummer, really hoped he'd actually gone rogue &, more importantly, independent. oh well. #tv

Publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their products without permission or payment (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/publishers-sue-microsof…

OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)
Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.

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ARVID HÖGBOM AND SVANTE ARRHENIUS NOTE THAT INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IS ADDING CO2 TO THE ATMOSPHERE,
AND CALCULATE HOW MUCH THE EARTH WILL HEAT UP IF THE CO2 CONCENTRATION DOUBLES.
THEIR ANSWER CLOSELY MATCHES MODERN ESTIMATES.
⭐️WE FIGURED OUT THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT CLOSER TO
THE START OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTTON THAN TO TODAY.
https://…

Greenhouse Effect

A look at Tony Dokoupil's tenure, with tumbling ratings and his kid-glove questioning of the powerful, as he became the face of the Weiss revolution at CBS News (Aidan McLaughlin/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tony-dokoupil

Tony Dokoupil Is the Face of the Bari Weiss Revolution at CBS News. Will He Survive It?
With tumbling ratings and savage reviews, the hospital-drama-handsome anchor has hit a rough patch after a meteoric rise at CBS. Insiders are questioning whether he’s up for the job—and panicking at the show’s coziness with the Trump administration. Through it all, Dokoupil has come to represent the Weiss era.

Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/39251a31-4a9d-4870-b86c-dc6353d67fdd

Gary Lineker's Goalhanger launches Goalhanger Ventures, an arm to provide infrastructure and funding, and makes an investment in Charlie Tymon's Invisible Media (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/goalhanger-laun…

Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Launches Ventures Arm
Goalhanger has launched a ventures arm and invested In Invisible Media - the 'Rest is' group is run by Gary Lineker.

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

Fox, Bravo, BET, and other major networks are embracing microdramas; Omdia says the short-form video format made $11B in global revenue in 2025 (Jonathan Abrams/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/arts/television/microdrama…

Fox, Bravo and BET Look to Take Microdramas Mainstream
Major networks like Fox, Bravo and BET are translating shows to the short-form video format that last year made $11 billion in global revenue.

Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

Om Malik, 1966-2026
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…

A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/…

Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast Lets You Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite
Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation. Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg and holds his own with deeply nerdy A.I. researchers.