Washington Post AI podcasts failed quality tests
The company launched an AI podcast experience despite up to 84% of AI-generated scripts not meeting editorial standards.
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Disney bets $1 billion on OpenAI’s Sora
Disney becomes Sora’s first big licensing partner, turning its IP into AI fuel while still fighting over how AI trains.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 following internal ‘code red’ scramble
The update claims to outperform human professionals on 70% of knowledge work tasks while completing them 11 times faster.
Meta abandons open-source AI strategy in pursuit of paid model
Mark Zuckerberg's company is developing a closed AI system codenamed Avocado, marking a major shift from its previous approach.
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Google launches AI pilot program with major publishers as it overhauls search links
The Washington Post, The Guardian, and other outlets will test AI-powered article overviews and audio briefings in Google News.
Adobe brings Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat to ChatGPT’s 800 million users
The creative software giant is betting that conversational AI will open its tools to people who've never touched photo editing software.
A new chapter for The Media Copilot
Announcing the next chapter of how we're covering the intersection of AI and media.
RSL licensing standard reaches v1.0 milestone; 1,500+ publishers on board
The open standard lets publishers set machine-readable terms for AI training on their content.
The New York Times sues Perplexity, adding to AI copyright battle
The lawsuit claims the AI search engine grabbed entire articles and falsely attributed hallucinated information to the newspaper.