The cursed pattern continues: following a baffling and error-ridden turn to AI content, the digital business publication Quartz was sold off and, in the process, its editorial team was almost entirely axed — making it the latest media brand to see low-quality AI use coincide with mass layoffs. As the business publication's cofounder Zach Seward, who now leads editorial AI initiatives at The New York Times, explained in a blog post yesterday, Quartz has changed hands several times since its launch back in 2012. Before last week's sale, it was owned by the digital media conglomerate G/O Media, whose ever-controversial CEO […]