If Google Kills News Media, Who Will Feed the AI Beast?

Trump Joins TikTok • Post-Conviction “Revenge Tour” • Where’s Melania? [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( If Google Kills News Media, Who Will Feed the AI Beast? Good Monday morning! After trying to ban TikTok as president, Donald Trump joined the app over the weekend with a clip of him entering a UFC fight, [writes]( Katie Herchenroeder. As for how Trump grapples with his criminal conviction, his niece, Mary Trump [tells]( Brian Stelter that she expects “he will be on a revenge tour.” Elsewhere, Nick Bilton [writes]( how Google’s AI Overviews and summarization tools from other tech giants, like OpenAI, “offer a CliffsNotes version of journalism that may further dumb down public discourse and deliver a brutal blow to an already battered media business.” Thanks for reading. [Silhouette of an employee using a computer in a newsroom, Image may contain: Indoors, Person, Computer Hardware, Electronics, Hardware, Monitor, Screen, Chair, Furniture, and Room]( [If Google Kills News Media, Who Will Feed the AI Beast?]( By [Nick Bilton]( [Summarization tools from OpenAI and Google offer a CliffsNotes version of journalism that may further dumb down public discourse and deliver a brutal blow to an already battered media business.]( [Read more button](   [Mary Trump Expects a Post-Conviction “Revenge Tour”]( By [Brian Stelter]( [The former president’s niece discusses the guilty verdict and why the GOP’s “attacks on the rule of law have to be taken very, very seriously.”]( [Read more button](   [Donald Trump Joined TikTok on Saturday and Already Has Millions of Followers]( By [Katie Herchenroeder]( [The GOP presumptive nominee posted a 13-second video, just days after being convicted by a NY jury on 34 felony counts.]( [Read more button](   [Where’s Melania? Not at Trump’s Post-Verdict Press Conference]( By [Bess Levin]( [Nothing says love like RSVP’ing I’ve got better things to do.]( [Read more button](   [Trump Supporters Fly American Flags Upside Down to Protest Guilty Verdict in New York]( By [Katie Herchenroeder]( [The inverted flag, flown outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home in 2021, has become a rallying symbol of the “Stop the Steal” movement.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast