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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
First came the loss of advertising and distribution power. Now AI has slashed the cost of content—dealing a body blow.
When I joined the news business in 2006, the word “digital”— and the idea that digital was disrupting the news media business—was already being spoken about in hushed tones around the office. My employer, Bennett Coleman & Co., was India’s leading publisher at the time. It was selling more newspapers than ever before and clocking record advertising revenues. And yet, the leadership at BCCL had begun to sense that something was amiss.
Those signals were largely coming from the Western world, where things had turned grim with remarkable speed. Newspaper sales for almost every publisher of repute had begun to …
The UAE is looking at its first public listing of the year while Egypt just delivered a big one; OpenAI’s bugging accused has ties to Saudi Arabia; and other updates from the week.
The arrest and charges against an employee of the artificial intelligence company, fewer early-stage VC deals, and other updates.
