Publishers remove articles after AI-concerns emerge over four tech writers’ identities
Hacker Noon and Information Age removed articles after Press Gazette asked publishers to verify four prolific tech and finance contributors.
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Newspaper opinion editors push back on AI-written op-eds after WSJ defense
Nieman Lab contacted 24 U.S. newspapers; none of the editors who responded said they would accept AI-written op-eds.
Druckenmiller says he used AI to write WSJ op-ed criticizing Bessent
Stanley Druckenmiller told NOTUS he used AI to write his Wall Street Journal op-ed, and the paper’s editorial page editor defended him.
Reuters opens 39 years of news archives to AI buyers on Snowflake
Reuters is selling access to its journalism archive dating to 1987 in five languages through Snowflake Marketplace under licensed terms.
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.
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.