Webb Wright

NY Reporter

The Drum

Reporter based in Brooklyn, NY, covering AI and emerging technology. Born and raised in the Rocky Mountains. Obsessed with language and music. Columbia J School alum.

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Grok

X hit with 9 GDPR complaints after hoovering European user data to train AI
OpenAI

Weekly AI Recap: OpenAI drama abounds & UK regulators scrutinize Amazon-Anthropic deal
OpenAI

What do we know about ‘Project Strawberry,’ OpenAI’s shadowy new AI project?
Microsoft

Move over LLMs: Why Microsoft, Salesforce & others are developing ‘small language models...
X

Elon Musk’s X sues the World Federation of Advertisers over alleged advertising boycott
AI-powered travel

How is AI reshaping travel and tourism?
Nvidia

Weekly AI Recap: DOJ probes Nvidia acquisition deal & tech companies spend big on AI in Q2
European Union

How the EU’s AI Act will impact marketers
The White House

How a Kamala Harris presidency – or a second Trump term – could affect American AI pol...
Perplexity Publishers' Program

Why Perplexity has agreed to share revenues with Time, Fortune & other publishers
Llama 3.1

Weekly AI Recap: Meta launches Llama 3.1 & OpenAI unveils online search tool
SearchGPT

OpenAI releases prototype of SearchGPT, a generative AI-powered search tool
"Be the investor you want to be"

New AI-generated ad from financial services company Etoro to air during Paris Olympics
Gemini and ChatGPT

Here's how tech companies are policing AI-generated political misinformation
China

Weekly AI Recap: China leads world in genAI use & Microsoft leaves OpenAI board
Texting

As AI disrupts search, some publishers build one-on-one reader relationships via text
EA

EA’s Ciaran McCarthy on the intersection between gaming, sports and culture
Prem Akkaraju

Weekly AI Recap: Stability AI gets a new lease on life & record labels sue AI companies
Toys"R"Us

The internet reacts to new Toys R Us Sora film: ‘Stephen King’s nightmares’
Target

Target embraces generative AI with Store Companion