AI was the leading cause of US layoffs in March, accounting for 25% of cuts
A quarter of the 60,000+ job cuts U.S. employers announced last month were attributed to artificial intelligence, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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Anthropic to OpenClaw users: Pay up
Anthropic is no longer letting Claude Pro and Max subscribers power third-party agent tools like OpenClaw — ending a quiet subsidy the AI agent community had grown to depend on.
OpenAI acquires TBPN podcast in push to become the industry’s media voice
OpenAI is navigating IPO preparations and policy debates.
New York Times cuts ties with freelancer over AI-assisted book review
Author-journalist Alex Preston admitted to using an AI tool that drew on a Guardian review without attribution.
Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than their professors
A Northeastern ethics seminar put Claude in students' hands and they pushed back harder than the professor expected.
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Wikipedia bans AI-generated text from its 7.1 million articles
Volunteer editors voted 44–2 to keep bot-written content off the open web's most-linked encyclopedia.
Anthropic accidentally published Claude Code’s source code this morning
A packaging error exposed Claude Code’s source.
The White House AI blueprint tells publishers where the administration stands on copyright. Spoiler: It’s not with them
The Trump administration’s AI policy framework backs AI companies on copyright and wants to override state regulation.
Five lessons from newsrooms that stopped talking about AI and started building with it
Poynter spent a day at SXSW with journalists actually using AI — and the through-line is ruthlessly practical: start with a pain point, draw the line, name where the human sits.
Court dismisses Arkansas publishers’ antitrust suit against Google
A federal judge tossed an antitrust case against Google, not because Google is innocent, but because the claims came too late.