Ted Turner
Ted Turner’s launch of CNN in 1980 introduced the world’s first 24‑hour news channel, using satellite and cable to create a continuous news stream. The model sparked a wave of superstations and reshaped how audiences consume information, offering real‑time coverage of events. While it enabled instant reporting, it also birthed the “doomscrolling” habit and intensified sensationalism, influencing later outlets like Fox News. Corporate shifts, notably the AOL‑Time Warner merger, diluted Turner’s editorial control and raise questions about future ownership and media independence.
Technology Does Not Belong to the Technologists
Sam Altman released a set of OpenAI principles asserting that artificial intelligence will dwarf the impact of steam engines, electricity, and even modern computing. The author of the article rebuts this claim as hubristic, pointing to history’s unpredictable consequences when...
Announcing ‘Intelligence: AI and Humanity’
Bloomsbury Academic is launching a new book series, *Intelligence: AI and Humanity*, with Jeff Jarvis as series editor. The non‑technical collection will examine AI’s cultural, ethical, and societal implications rather than its engineering. The inaugural titles feature Dr. Rumman Chowdhury...
Rethinking Intelligence
A new paper by Yann LeCun and co‑authors outlines a philosophy that AI should mirror human specialization rather than pursue a monolithic artificial general intelligence. The authors argue that finite computational resources are best allocated to mastering a limited set...