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April 16, 2024
2:41 pm
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Cheat Sheet: AI In Banking
April 6, 2024
8:03 am
Strangely enough, there’s not a whole lot of coverage on how banks are using AI. Where are all the curious journalists?
Publishers Using Gen AI To Improve Their Own Search
April 5, 2024
9:25 am
Digiday’s Sara Guaglione has a great scoop on how several publishers — including the FT, Forbes, Business Insider, The Guardian and others — are using
Gen AI Is Over, Eh?
April 4, 2024
2:32 pm
Substack author and Financial Times contributor Gary Marcus stops short of saying Gen AI is over, but does posit that the “bubble” could burst in
OpenAI’s Forthcoming Voice Engine
March 25, 2024
7:34 am
Here is the application to the U.S. patent office. You can already talk to OpenAI’s ChatGPT app. That was only the beginning.
‘BloombergGPT’ Is MIA. Is This Why?
March 25, 2024
7:30 am
Bloomberg last year announced its own AI technology, BloombergGPT, designed to help investors make decisions. BloombergGPT was built to draw from the treasure trove of
Deep Dive Part 1: When Gen AI Writes The Pitch
March 23, 2024
1:02 pm
Just for fun, try creating the story pitch after the story is written. We did that this week, using generative AI. We pasted an already-published story into each of three GenAI tools and asked it to write a compelling PR pitch based on that article.
Deep Dive Part 2: Your New Job? VP of Pitch Analytics
March 23, 2024
1:01 pm
It’s 2026. You’ve got a new job, earning $250K a year as “VP, Pitch Analytics.” You’ve got a modest budget to retain freelance tech reporters. You manage an intern.
Deep Dive Part 3: Gen AI Critiques A Contributed Post
March 23, 2024
12:24 pm
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Microsoft Now Powering Semafor With AI
March 5, 2024
9:36 am
Visit Semafor and you’ll see lots of headlines with blue stars next to them. Semafor reporters write these articles, which then are extended by ChatGPT
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Congress to Investigate the Omnicom-IPG Deal
December 20, 2024
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
SWMS Predictions for 2025
December 10, 2024
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
Talk About Confidentiality…
December 10, 2024
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’
November 22, 2024
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
Business Insider Reporters Starting to Go on Camera
November 19, 2024
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer
November 13, 2024
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy team” and picked five AI startups to seed their rosters. We’re now in year 2 and it’s time to draft again. The podcasters wonder… which startups do they dump? Which do they add? The player whose startups accumulate the most total value by Nov. 1, 2028 is the winner, so there’s plenty of time to make adjustments. Here’s a link to the AI fantasy team podcast — you may need a password. Not sure.