Slack is launching a suite of built-in AI features that serve up summaries of threads and channel recaps, while also allowing you to ask questions about what’s been going on at work. The workplace management platform first started testing Slack AI last year, but now it’s rolling out as a paid add-on for Slack Enterprise users.
AI already has a track record as a pay-to-use service so this type of move will be the norm, not the exception.
Tech giants can add-on AI tools for free to deepen their moats and increase lock-in, but others can generate revenue with them.
via The Verge
Federal Reserve officials continued to worry that inflation could stay stubbornly high during their policy meeting last month. That could keep interest rates at 23-year high for longer than previously expected
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three rate cuts this year is a “reasonable baseline” expectation.
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Investors now expect the first rate cut to come around the middle of year, according to futures.
0% rates are a thing of the past, but I could see the Fed cutting the rate in half by the time the dust settles.
via CNN
Rather than an attack on the platforms, we can see this as the culmination of what social networks were built for; in an environment pushed by the business model to favor crude measures of “reach” and “engagement,” the troll is the optimal organism.
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the concept of human relationships most “tech visionaries” seem to have oscillates between Uncanny Valley ideas of “community” and downright transactional views of how people interact with each other.
via Marcelo Rinesi
ICYMI: What Apple’s iOS 17 privacy shift means for marketers
With iOS 17, the company will remove URL tracking parameters from links accessed in its Mail and Messages apps along with removing them from Safari Private Browsing
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with Apple’s new Link Tracking Protection feature, user-identifiable information will be stripped from URLs
UTMs look unaffected, for now, hopefully
82,000,000: Number of people in the U.S. who listen to AM radio monthly
Audiences have splintered.
Audio has reach.
Digital hasn’t eaten the world.
[insert other takeaways here]
It’s not about being everywhere, it’s about being where your audience is.