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Whenever I tell people I’m an auctioneer, there are inevitably two follow up questions: First: “Do you talk really fast like those guys on TV?” followed by a cartoonish imitation, complete with an imaginary microphone and a pseudo Southern accent. Second: “What’s the most expensive thing you’ve ever sold?” After two decades of auctioneering, theContinueContinue reading “The power of silence: 3 lessons on capturing an audience from a world-renowned auctioneer”

Is Reddit like other social media platforms? That’s the question before the High Court of Australia in light of the country’s under-16s social media ban.  Last week, Reddit filed a lawsuit in Australia’s highest court seeking to overturn the country’s recently enacted social media ban for children. The San Francisco-based firm claims the law isContinueContinue reading “Reddit says it isn’t like other platforms in case against Australia’s social media ban”

For the past two years, I’ve written predictions for how AI will continue to change the media industry and the business of news in the coming year. Prognosticating is a risky business even at the most tranquil of times, and media’s AI era is anything but: bots are multiplying, newsrooms are shrinking, and new businessContinueContinue reading “5 predictions for AI’s growing role in the media in 2026”

Entrepreneur and investor Kim Perell shared the advice on the latest episode of ‘Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.’ source https://www.entrepreneur.com/starting-a-business/serial-investor-says-this-is-a-major-red-flag-in-pitches/498642

It’s rare that your esoteric, impossible-to-pronounce, decade-long research project becomes a technology so crucial to national security that the President of the United States calls it out from the White House. But that’s exactly what happened to Dr. Eric Wengrowski, the CEO of Steg AI. Wengrowski spent nearly a decade of his life advancing steganography,ContinueContinue reading “This guy’s obscure PhD project is the only thing standing between humanity and AI image chaos”