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Ron Miller’s Bosses at Boldstart Raise $250M
The former TC star reporter picked a good place to go. Here’s his latest.
ChatGPT Caught Lying
When Axios prompted ChatGPT for basic background research on Wealthfront’s confidential IPO filing last week, the bot confidently detailed a Wealthfront investor deck. The problem? It appears to be entirely made up.
Axios Belatedly Launches A Business-of-Media Event Franchise
Indy media business experts Brian Morrissey and Jacob Cohen Donnelly have built two very successful businesses with both newsletters and face-to-face events. Axios has noticed this and has decided to get into the event space focusing on the economics of publishing, which of course is a topic close to home. Announced this week: an Axios event coming up in September. Hosts: Sara Fischer and Kerry Flynn.
ServiceNow Throws Money at Fortune to Jumpstart AI Spending
ServiceNow has launched a special report on Fortune to jumpstart strategic spending on AI, illustrating workarounds for implementation problems, and otherwise illuminating the path to integrating AI into software operations. This is a branding exercise, of course, and perhaps is a sign that earned media is just not going get a strategic job done.
AIQ shows a big idea and how to leverage the prestige of Fortune without having to pitch stories to accomplish that same objective: you can just buy shelf space. In the case of AIQ, Fortune hired freelancer Sage Lazzaro — who used to work on staff there to create high-level content. So let’s keep an eye on this project, monitoring how well-respected it is… and whether its content gets surfaced in search engines.
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