Here is a big existential question for every media company today. Do they fight the AI

tech overlords or do they just take their money? So far, most of them are taking the money,

but a few are fighting. One of them is Zip Davis. This is Peter Kafka, the host of channels.

And on this week's episode, I'm talking to Zip Davis, CEO of Avec Shah, who tells me he's kind of optimistic about the media business and why he's taking on the people behind chat GPT.

That's this week on channels, wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

We are served. We're a dumb little tennis podcast. We appreciate you getting up early with us this morning. We're here to Madison Square Park, IBM AI Sports Club. This is pretty cool. We have ping pong, some trivia, some watch parties open now through Sunday, final Sunday. Mike, what else we're looking at? You just named all of it. Well, just do your thing. What are you here for then? I mean, what are we doing?

IBM AI Sports Club. We have some ping pong where they'll do some match analysis, which we're going to do later on.

Hopefully they'll make fun of Andy and John.

I will not be stepping in and playing.

There's some AI trivia. And then every night they're going to be doing the semifinals for both the men's and women's, and then they'll be doing the finals. So come on down to the park, check it out. It's going to be awesome. I'm just telling you, just looking around here and all of the stuff that there is to do, all of the experiences, our kids would love this.

Yeah.

Right. It's going to be awesome. I'm just telling you, just looking around here and all of the stuff that there is to do,

all of the experiences, our kids would love this.

Yeah.

Right.

Hank would be all over the trivia, the ping pong, the whole deal.

J.W., how are you feeling?

You're like, how are those 27-hour days that you're doing out at the open?

Hit me, what I say?

There's a business end. Good tournament so far. This is, God, this is, I mean, I live right around here. This is a great setup. Tell us your exact address, like the number. Yeah, tell us your phone number. There's that, uh, well, yes, my, uh, this building right here. Very top floor. No, this is a great set of those.

Let's get into some tennis because there is a little tennis tournament going on across the river in Queens.

Anyone have Yonik's Center and Carlos Alcquarez progressing to the semifinals?

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