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Sports Illustrated fires its CEO, who becomes the fourth executive to leave publisher amid fallout from AI-generated articles - Fortune

Ross Levinsohn, the CEO of the publisher of Sports Illustrated, is out of a job, weeks after the venerable brand came under fire after accusations it had been publishing articles written by AI.

Arena Group Holdings, which includes the magazine in its portfolio, announced the cut late Monday, saying it was made “to improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company.” The AI incident was not mentioned in the terse release.

(Arena holds a multi-year publishing agreement for the magazine. Authentic Brands Group bought Sports Illustrated for $110 million in 2019.)

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Welcome to the ad-free internet - The Economist

For a preview of what lies wrapped beneath the Christmas tree, log in to Facebook. The social network tracks its users’ behaviour so intimately that it is able to personalise ads with a precision that sometimes verges on mind-reading. Its ad-stuffed newsfeed at this time of year embodies the internet’s great trade-off: consumers enjoy free services, but must submit to bombardment with commercials from companies that know who has been naughty or nice.

Yet increasingly, those with deep enough pockets are getting the chance to escape the online admen. Last month Facebook’s owner, Meta, began offering customers in Europe ad-free subscriptions to Facebook and its sister network, Instagram, for €9.99 ($10.85) a month. In October X (formerly Twitter) launched an ad-free option. In the same month TikTok, a fast-growing Chinese-owned video app, announced that it was testing an ad-free subscription. The following month Snapchat, another social-media rival, said it was doing the same.

Social networks are not the only medium allowing the group that advertisers most covet—the better-off with money to splurge—to wriggle beyond their reach. From video and audio to news and gaming, a combination of regulation and technological change is encouraging media companies to offer alternatives. “We are in a world where it will be increasingly possible to avoid ads,” says Brian Wieser of Madison and Wall, an advertising consultancy. As the rich opt out of commercials on some platforms, advertisers are therefore looking for new places to catch them.

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Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries -

In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic.

The math performance of U.S. teenagers has sharply declined since 2018, with scores lower than 20 years ago, and with American students continuing to trail global competitors, according to the results of a key international exam released on Tuesday.

In the first comparable global results since the coronavirus pandemic, 15-year-olds in the United States scored below students in similar industrialized democracies like the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and well behind students in the highest-performing countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Estonia — continuing an underperformance in math that predated the pandemic.

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A big part of a university president's job is fundraising. That might be why Harvard's got to stay and Penn's had to go. - Business Insider

Penn President Liz Magill's resignation, following months of criticism and a botched congressional testimony, rocked academia.

Some celebrated it as a win against antisemitism; others viewed it as curbing free speech and the right to protest.

While there are many reasons Magill stepped down, one possible factor is straightforward: money.

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