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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Gist, ProRata's AI search engine based 100% on media-licensed content

• Creator Science, Jay Clouse's platform to help digital creators

• The weekly newspaper 'The New European' becomes 'The New World’

Gist, ProRata's AI search engine based 100% on media-licensed content

The generative artificial intelligence company ProRata offers an AI search engine, Gist.ai, that delivers results based on content licensed by media outlets worldwide.

In fact, according to ProRata's announcement a few days ago, more than 500 publishers from various countries have now signed agreements with the company to license their content and generate revenue based on the results provided.

With this number of publishers as partners, Gist.ai has become one of the largest generative AI tools based on content with formal licenses for its use.

ProRata's growing list of media partners includes publications and media companies such as The Atlantic, Fast Company, Inc., Fortune, TIME, Boston Globe Media, New York Magazine, The Verge, Vox, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Sky News, Newsday, Tom's Guide, and Who What Wear, among many others.

Among the publishers that have recently joined ProRata are the Spanish news agency EFE and Prisa Media, among others.

With all these companies, ProRata shares revenue in a model that, according to the company, "sets a new standard for ethical and trustworthy AI search."

ProRata CEO Bill Gross has stated that “publishers everywhere are rallying behind ProRata because we prove that generative AI can both honor creators and deliver an outstanding user experience”.

As Gross has explained, "Gist.ai answers every query using 100 percent licensed content so consumers get authoritative, accurate answers” while enabling publishers to benefit from those searches.

ProRata's system analyzes each source's contribution to the responses and calculates proportional compensation for each publisher.

Links:

• Gist.ai

• ProRata

• ProRata AI Signs Partnerships With More Than 500 Publications, Giving Gist.ai One of the Largest Licensed Content Libraries in Generative AI Search - ProRata’s Press Release.

Creator Science, Jay Clouse's platform to help digital creators

Jay Clouse is one of the most prestigious digital creators on the internet. He leads the Creator Science platform, which offers a range of free and paid services designed to help other digital creators succeed in their ventures.

This is how Clouse presents his proposition:

"Creating has never been easier, but cutting through the noise has never been harder. Creator Science teaches creators to build solid businesses through observation, experimentation, and iteration. Luck and virality aren't reliable. The creators you admire don't leave success to chance: they observe trends, experiment, and iterate based on data."

The free services that Jay Clouse offers on Creator Science are as follows:

• Newsletter: Every Sunday, get experiments, insights, and strategies designed to help you grow your audience, build trust, and boost your income. A newsletter that takes 10 minutes to read and reaches over 60,000 subscribers for free.

• Podcast: A podcast featuring prominent guests like James Clear, Ali Abdaal, and Tim Urban that explains experiments and offers practical advice for digital creators.

• YouTube Channel: With over 112,000 subscribers, our YouTube channel offers behind-the-scenes insights into running a creator business and interviews with top creators like Justin Welsh, Sara Dietschy, and Thomas Frank. Learn how creators are building their audiences today.

• Content organized by topics: Jay Clouse offers the best of the content he has published over the years, organized by topics.

Introductory course for digital creators (Professional Creator Crash Course) delivered via email.

Additionally, Jay Clouse offers several paid products and services on Creator Science, such as CreatorHQ, "a complete operating system for creators," online courses, and The Lab community for advanced creators.

Link: 

• Creator Science  

The weekly newspaper 'The New European' becomes 'The New World’

The British weekly newspaper The New European, which was born nine years ago as a temporary, pro-European publication in response to Brexit, has announced that it is changing its name to The New World and expanding its content and focus after establishing itself over these years as an independent publication. The newspaper, which was initially supposed to last only four weeks, has now published 427 issues.

Its founder and CEO, journalist Matt Kelly, has explained that The New World has tripled its revenue over the past three years and quadrupled its subscribers and newsstand sales. It currently has 35,000 paying customers, most of them subscribers (in addition to subscribers, the newspaper sells about 4,500 copies each week at newsstands, according to the Financial Times).

According to Kelly, the name change reflects a global reality: the forces and threats that drove Brexit (nationalism, disinformation, loss of trust in institutions, and democratic backsliding) are now global phenomena that require a broader perspective.

The New World seeks to expand its mission, addressing not only European issues but also global challenges such as technology, China's rise, climate change, new demographics, and global politics.

Links: 

• The New World

• Why The New European is becoming The New World – The New World

  After 9 years and 437 issues of what was meant to be a 4-week pop-up paper, our publication is turning a new page

• ‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots – Financial Times

  Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

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