Anthropic says Claude’s text watermark survives light editing but not rewrites
Anthropic detailed how Claude's SynthID-based text watermark works, when editing removes it and why code carries a lesser mark.
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Mirage’s $50,000 AI news channel runs 24/7 without journalists
Mirage's one-day AI News Network drew 50,000 viewers on X, cost about $50,000 and employed no journalists at any point.
Fake Forbes sites sold guaranteed coverage for $10,000, PR pitch shows
Forbes has confirmed two AI-generated sites are fake, after a PR agency offered Press Gazette guaranteed placement on one for $10,000.
New York Post launches Hamilton AI chatbot in effort to retain readers
The New York Post is rolling out an AI personalization suite named Hamilton, built on Google Cloud, across its Android and iOS apps.
Inside the AI newsroom that beat WIRED to the punch
One-man AI newsrooms like RuntimeWire are publishing scoops in minutes for about $100 a day, raising real questions for publishers.
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Runtime Wire runs an AI newsroom with one human and 1,627 published stories
Runtime Wire's founder Ryan Merket runs an AI newsroom that scanned 71,796 stories and published just 2.3 percent of them.
Eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year, a new record
Five winners and three finalists told the Pulitzer judging committee they used AI in their reporting, the most since disclosure became mandatory in 2024.
EU makes AI labels mandatory on authentic-looking images, audio and text
Starting August 2, companies must mark synthetic content designed to look real with visible AI labels and digital watermarks or face fines.
Qwoted bans AI-generated expert profiles as PR spam floods reporters’ inboxes
Qwoted says it is removing fake and AI-written PR accounts as fabricated experts reach major news outlets.
Substack adds AI detection to its posts through a new Pangram partnership
Substack readers can now scan posts longer than 100 words for signs of AI writing, using detection technology from Pangram.