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- Nov 1: Zöe Schiffer is joining WIRED as Director, Business & Industry, and is the co-host of WIRED’s new flagship podcast, Uncanny Valley. She joins from The Verge and Platformer, and officially starts in WIRED’s West Coast offices in January.
- Apr 9: The Verge says that companies like OpenAI are transcribing podcasts as data to train artificial intelligence programs.
- Apr 3: Google Podcasts is now said to have closed in the US (it’s still available in every other country, with no closure date yet). David Pearce from The Verge writes an excoriating article criticising Google. “The podcast app is only the latest good Google thing to die. And if Google ever wants us to buy into its promises again, this has to stop.”
- Oct 12, 2023: Further reading/viewing: "Don't make podcasts radio," said Oxford Road CEO Dan Granger in a speech made at Podcast Movement which was made available this week on the company's YouTube channel … Acast's Megan Davies has posted about what she calls a revolutionary female podcast landscape in Saudi Arabia … NPR left Twitter six months ago; but the broadcaster says traffic to its websites has dropped by only one percentage point … and The Verge covers more about redundancies and cancellations at WNYC.
- Jun 22, 2023: The Verge writes a feature article: Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails.
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