A.I. companies like Google-owned DeepMind are wrong to think ethics can be solved with code.

Netflix finally gave us the option to turn off that horrible autoplay trailers feature. Other tech companies, take note: Kill. Your. Darlings.

Google apologized for accidentally sending users’ private videos to strangers.

Watch this app as a competitor to TikTok.

A lot to dig into here.

People magazine partnering w celeb texting startup Community to text readers who sign up. Community is monetized by its celebrities, called “Leaders,” who pay a fee to use the platform as a means of connecting w fans.

Spotify is buying The Ringer in an effort to double down on podcasts

HT @mediastarnews #magazines

It powers Allbirds and Kylie Jenner, and wants to do much more.

BuzzFeed trying a view-through attribution model that will track whether anybody who views BringMe’s content or videos books a Hilton room within a set window of time. If so, BuzzFeed gets an affiliate commission, even if several days later

ICYMI

HT @SueGreenbergPR

Three teens will be crowned ambassadors.