Microsoft says Copilot chat logs undercut New York Times copyright claims
Microsoft told a federal judge that 59,545 of 8.2 million Copilot chat logs shared at least 16 words with plaintiff news content.

Microsoft told a federal judge that 59,545 of 8.2 million Copilot chat logs shared at least 16 words with plaintiff news content.

The Seattle Times, Newsday, Wikihow and Argentina's Editorial Perfil have all sued OpenAI, pushing the number of publisher cases past a dozen.

The government says a ruling against OpenAI could threaten national security and put smaller publishers at a disadvantage.

Hacker Noon and Information Age removed articles after Press Gazette asked publishers to verify four prolific tech and finance contributors.

The new Adobe for Slack app lets Business+ and Enterprise+ teams create and edit images, video and PDFs without leaving their conversations.
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Nieman Lab contacted 24 U.S. newspapers; none of the editors who responded said they would accept AI-written op-eds.

Keeping unauthorized AI crawlers out is an increasingly difficult game. That should change what publishers spend their energy fighting for.

NPR and NewsGuard posed 30 propaganda-based questions to six chatbots and four search engines, and the chatbots handled them better.

Reuters details how its visual verification team confirms user-shot photos and video, publishing roughly a dozen of hundreds reviewed each day.
