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In late September, dappGambl—a site that analyzes Web 3 and cryptocurrency gambling platforms—released a report that found the value of NFT digital art collections has bottomed out. The report found that these once high-flying collections were trading at a value of around $80 million in July 2023, about 3 percent of its August 2022 peak.

Not surprisingly, the report went viral, propelled in part by…

The first NFT artwork sold for $69 million in March 2021, kicking off a frenzy of (a) investment in NFT art and (b) ridicule by everyone else. The critics couldn’t believe people were spending massive sums on works that weren’t worth the price, especially since the buyers didn’t own the actual art, just a digital proof of ownership that resides on a blockchain. …

AI rewrote 50 of the best-known brand slogans, and survey respondents preferred the AI version 48 percent of the time—even Apple’s “Think Different” slogan fell to the AI alternative. Also in this AI-heavy monthly long-form episode:

• Newsrooms are adopting standards for using AI
• Google is pitching an AI news-writing tool to major media outlets
• How should newsrooms be thinking about AI?
• A study of more than…

Mainstream and tech media alike have filled their pages with headlines about disastrous demos, worrisome uses, fleeing users, and evaporating investments. Is it all true? Or is it a combination of clickbait and a failure to understand what’s really happening? In the February long-form episode of the “For Immediate Release” podcast, Neville and Shel look at generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments, mostly having to…