Chatbots: A ‘truth oracle’?
Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan said chatbots could become a default source for facts within a decade, though the shift is not inevitable.
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Appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters AI copyright win
The 3rd Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters’ win in the first federal appeals case rejecting fair use for AI training on publisher content.
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.
Thomson Reuters says it spent $40 million to build its own frontier AI model
The company started with an open-source foundation, then trained Thomson on proprietary legal, tax and Reuters content.
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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Media buyers debate whether ads can sway AI search
Publishers are selling ads formatted for AI agents to read, but media buyers disagree on whether the tactic actually works.
QVC hosts vote to unionize with SAG-AFTRA over generative AI concerns
QVC and HSN hosts voted 37-9 to join SAG-AFTRA, citing fears about unauthorized AI use of their likenesses.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, pitching frontier work at half the price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, claiming top scores on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while keeping the same price as its predecessor.
Publishers ask court to sanction OpenAI in escalating copyright fight
The Times and others say OpenAI withheld evidence in a copyright fight over ChatGPT training and output logs.
The end of 10 blue links is not the end of Google
Google’s AI search push may kill the old web traffic model, but it shows how firmly the company still controls the future of information.