Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Have Yourself A Very Meta Christmas
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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Inside the Stream: Sports Streaming Momentum Grows
This week we discuss a number of new developments that contribute to streaming sports’ momentum. These include NBCU making its RSNs available to Peacock Premium subscribers; Disney looking to buy ...
Coinbase Teams With Kalshi to Offer Prediction Market Access
Coinbase has become the latest financial platform to enter the prediction market game.
The cryptocurrency exchange announced Wednesday (Dec. 17) that it would begin to allow access to pr...
Luma AI brings character consistency to video with Ray3
Luma AI, an a16z-backed company specializing in AI video and 3D models, released Ray3 Modify, a new model that enables users to modify existing footage using character reference images while preservin...
More ads coming to App Store search results in 2026
Apple announced plans to add more advertisements to App Store search results starting next year. The expansion provides advertisers with additional placement options amid 65 percent of app downloads o...
Gemini 3 Flash is a game changer and here’s why
Google began rolling out Gemini 3 Flash, a more efficient version of its latest AI model, approximately one month after launching Gemini 3 Pro in November. The new model delivers pro-grade reasoning p...
Adobe is sued for using pirated books to train AI
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed by Oregon author Elizabeth Lyon accuses Adobe of training its SlimLM AI model on pirated books, including her guidebooks, through the SlimPajama-627B dataset deri...
