Microsoft researcher called AI training the ‘largest theft of labor in human history’
Internal Microsoft comments surfaced in an unsealed New York Times brief seeking to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for unauthorized copying.
Reach plans net cut of 160 editorial jobs, prioritizing engaged time over views
Reach plans to cut about 160 net editorial jobs while making engaged time a key measure of newsroom performance.
NBC News interviews AI actress Tilly Norwood on Today
An NBC News correspondent interviewed an AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood and later described glitches and memory lapses.
Cloudflare tightens AI crawler controls for ad-supported publisher sites
Cloudflare will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages as it moves toward pay-per-use compensation.
Google expands AI licensing payments based on publishers’ content value
Google is testing a program that pays publishers when their content significantly contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews or AI Mode.
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Reuters links CuttingRoom to its MCP server for newsroom AI video editing
Reuters has connected its MCP server to CuttingRoom, letting editors find and edit agency video through plain-language prompts.
Press Gazette launches AI content detection tool for prepublication checks
Made by Humans checks text, images, audio and video for synthetic manipulation before editors publish.
When seeing is no longer believing: How AI fakes complicate visual investigations
Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.
Publishers rebuild newsroom org charts for a post-Google search era
USA Today Co. is reorganizing its audience operation as The New York Times creates a role focused on AI and off-platform discovery.
AI tool Arbiter tracks emerging disinformation
Arbiter, an AI tool from nonprofit SimPPL, is being tested to track emerging disinformation narratives.