In breaking news, the Supreme Court is allowing the White House to press social media companies to remove disinformation. Did this really need to go to court in the first place?

Time strikes a deal with OpenAI, while the recording industry files suit against Suno AI and Uncharted Labs citing copyright infringement.

And...have we learned anything from moving text to video online?

Hits and misses include the Verizon logo and the Toys R Us commercial produced with OpenAI.

Rants and raves include the Olympics and AI forgetting to read the room.

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This week's links:

Supreme Court Ruling on Social Media

Time Strikes Deal with OpenAI

Recording Industry Sues Sona

We Learned the Wrong Lessons from Video

Verizon's New Logo

Toys R Us's AI Ad

Al Michaels' AI Voice at the Olympics

AI Execs Forget to Read the Room

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While Wells Fargo is into employee surveillance, the US Surgeon General pushes for a warning on social media much like those on cigarette packages.

Forbes threatens Perplexity with legal action, while TikTok debuts humanlike AI-generated avatars for advertising.

Hits and misses include Oscar Mayer and American Express.

Rants and raves include indie print and the Cannes Lions award winners.

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This week's links:

Wells Fargo Fires Employees

Surgeon General and Social Media

Forbes Threatens Perplexity

TikTok Debuts AI Ad Features

Oscar Mayer Bacon Ad

Cannes Lions 2024

High-End Indie Print Publications

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Apple's big developer conference meeting saw the launch of IOS 18 and Apple Intelligence? Apple decided to partner with OpenAI and not Google for their AI integration. Is this a big miss for Google Gemini?

Plus, Adobe and Meta have big terms and conditions issues this week.

Hits and misses include OpenAI, Google and Nathan's hot dogs.

Rants and raves include "Infectious Generosity" by Chris Anderson and yet another AI content marketing launch.

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This week's links:

Adobe's Missed Terms

Adobe's Apology

META's content problems with Europe

Apple Intelligence Is Launched

Joey Chestnut and Nathan's Hot Dogs

AI Content Marketing Agent

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Twitter/X leans into NSFW content and vertical video. Is this the sign of a turnaround or more desperate measures to stay alive? Robert and Joe take opposite sides and fight, fight, fight.

Spotify's CEO makes comments about the cost of content being almost nothing. Should we care or should we boycott?

Hits include Four Seasons and 10 Cent Beer night.

Rants and raves include signals from Marcus Sheridan and Suits.

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This week's links:

Twitter's New NSFW Strategy

Twitter/X Will Do Vertical Video

Spotify CEO Is Out of Touch

Facebook Going After Gen Z

10 Cent Beer Night - Craig Irons

Four Seasons PR Win

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Big news this week as leaked Google search API documents are released into the world. The TLDR? Google has been lying about how it formulates search results. What do we know? Google manipulates content like an editor of a media company would. But does it even matter?

AI scams are hitting a tipping point as we get closer to the US elections.

OpenAI inks two more content deals and Elon raises money for xAI.

Hits and misses include a home appliance store and Cheez-Its.

Rants and raves include marketing agencies and GaryVee's commencement speech.

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This week's links:

The Google API Document Leak

Celebs Getting AI Scammed

Atlantic/Vox Ink Deal with OpenAI

Elon Raises $6 Billion for xAI

HBR Recognizes Creator Economy

Home Appliance Sales and Service

Marketing Agencies as Consultants

GaryVee's Commencement Address

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While the world gets distracted by Scarlett Johansson's possible case against OpenAI, the AI giant continues to do deals with media companies.

This time, Open AI signed a deal with News Corp (owners of WSJ) for $250 million over five years (reported). Who's next?

Trump Media's quarterly reported was more than a disaster, and yet the stock keeps going up.

And we have a nice disagreement about whether Chick-fil-A should embrace or fire their internal social media influencers.

Hits and misses include GaryVee's new book and Coca-Cola lens.

Rants and raves include content marketing platforms and a nice rave for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team.

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This week's links:

OpenAI vs. Black Widow

OpenAI Signs Deal

Trump Media Report

Social Influencers and what to do

Coca-Cola Lens

GaryVee's Book Trailer

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A special live recording of Joe and Robert with Philip Hernandez from the Haunted Attraction Network, recorded at Content Entrepreneur Expo (CEX) in Cleveland, Ohio on May 5th. Philip goes into detail about how he thinks about and creates content for the network, including the challenges and opportunities in social media content creation.

Please follow Philip on Instagram and check out the Haunted Attraction Network.

Special thanks to Hubspot for sponsoring the opening reception at CEX, and to our friends at VividFront for producing this recording.

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It was another crazy week in AI news.

On the heals of Google's AI announcement, OpenAI launches ChatGPT4 Omni (o). What does the new iteration mean for creators and marketers?

If that wasn't enough, TikTok is upgrading its algorithm with AI. Thank you (not so much).

And is the beef between Kendrick and Drake real? We think it's marketing.

Hits and misses include John Mulaney's new show and Prof G's podcast strategy.

Rants and raves include OEF's 100 Holes of Golf model and more on MarTech cuts.

This week's links:

OpenAI Releases Omni

TikTok Is Testing AI in Algo

The Drake/Kendrick Beef

John Mulaney's New Show

Prof G Markets Podcast

OEF's 100 Holes of Golf

MarTech Spending Falls

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