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#linktipp "A smackdown over programmatic ads and why reader revenue is crucial"
https://dankennedy.net/2024/03/14/a-smackd…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09393 has been replaced.
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Taypsi: Static Enforcement of Privacy Policies for Policy-Agnostic Oblivious Computation
Secure multiparty computation (MPC) techniques enable multiple parties to compute joint functions over their private data without sharing that data to other parties, typically by employing powerful cryptographic protocols to protect individual's data. One challenge when writing such functions is that most MPC languages force users to intermix programmatic and privacy concerns in a single application, making it difficult to change or audit a program's underlying privacy policy. Existing policy-a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10062 has been replaced.
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SMART-LLM: Smart Multi-Agent Robot Task Planning using Large Language Models
In this work, we introduce SMART-LLM, an innovative framework designed for embodied multi-robot task planning. SMART-LLM: Smart Multi-Agent Robot Task Planning using Large Language Models (LLMs), harnesses the power of LLMs to convert high-level task instructions provided as input into a multi-robot task plan. It accomplishes this by executing a series of stages, including task decomposition, coalition formation, and task allocation, all guided by programmatic LLM prompts within the few-shot pr…

Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says it is premature to estimate the impact (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/google

Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss
Publishers are retooling their SEO strategies, investing in content expertise and diversifying traffic, to combat traffic loss from Google’s SGE.

Sources: Google's Search Generative Experience could cut organic search traffic to publishers by 20% to 60%; Google says it is premature to estimate the impact (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/google

Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss
Publishers are retooling their SEO strategies, investing in content expertise and diversifying traffic, to combat traffic loss from Google’s SGE.

More on the death of the news business: the death of programmatic advertising as social media giants tighten their grip.
Check out this chart from Talking Points Memo and the decline in its programmatic ad revenue.
Why Is Your News Site Going Out of Business?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-is-your-news-site-going-out-of-business

Google launched its artificial intelligence-powered search engine, #Search #Generative #Experience, in beta last May, sending publishers scrambling to prepare for a significant disruption in organic search traffic, with potential …

Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss
Publishers are retooling their SEO strategies, investing in content expertise and diversifying traffic, to combat traffic loss from Google’s SGE.

A look at The Cool Down, a climate-focused news outlet that makes $5M in programmatic advertising per year and aims to increase it to $12M per year in 2025 (Clara Aberneithie/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

The US website making ad-funded journalism about the environment work
How has The Cool Down seen such high visitor rates and how will its business model move to providing a consultancy platform?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01440 has been replaced.
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Programmatic Imitation Learning from Unlabeled and Noisy Demonstrations
Imitation Learning (IL) is a promising paradigm for teaching robots to perform novel tasks using demonstrations. Most existing approaches for IL utilize neural networks (NN), however, these methods suffer from several well-known limitations: they 1) require large amounts of training data, 2) are hard to interpret, and 3) are hard to repair and adapt. There is an emerging interest in programmatic imitation learning (PIL), which offers significant promise in addressing the above limitations. In P…

News sites are closing due to the collapse of programmatic ad revenue; a case study of Talking Points Memo shows how subscriptions kept the site in business (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-is-your-news-s…

Why Is Your News Site Going Out of Business?
Over the years I've written about structural problems in the digital news industry, often driven by the growth of platform monopolies and other issues. Just in the last few months and even in the last…