“Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of Center for Countering Digital Hate, said, ‘Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research.’ He added that Mr. Musk wanted to ‘stem the tide of negative stories and rebuild his relationship with advertisers.'”

“The campaign for the American presidency is playing out across an unprecedented, fragmented new media landscape and leaving campaigns, voters, and political observers alike struggling to figure out what exactly is going on…Meanwhile over in TV-land, executives are contemplating a previously unthinkable question about the ultimate political TV prize, a debate: If Donald Trump doesn’t show up, will anyone watch?”

“According to [deputy editor Martin] Schori, the findings surprised the newsroom, which initially thought the findings were a mistake. Instead, Schori explained that since readers get a more general understanding of an article upfront, they are more likely to go on and read the whole text.”

“How did it all happen? Through a helpful tip from a friend, a dogged but careful reporting process, and a childhood — surrounded by his parents’ endeavors in journalism — that prepared him for the pace and heat of a big story.”

“‘It is stunning to read a piece that is so patently and aggressively false,’ [Jeff Zucker spokesperson Risa] Heller said in a statement to Vanity Fair. ‘On numerous occasions, we made it clear to the reporter and her editors that they were planning to publish countless anecdotes and alleged incidents that never happened. They did so anyway.'”

“The phenomenon is mirrored in other Asian markets, from China to Southeast Asia, where artificial anchors are starting to change the face of news broadcasting…AI offers a particularly powerful tool for reaching audiences in a country like India, where hundreds of languages are spoken……the nation’s first AI news anchor, Sana [has] reported the weather and co-anchored programs with other journalists in 75 languages.”

“News publishers have called the unlicensed use of their content a copyright violation. Some — including Wall Street Journal parent News Corp, Dotdash Meredith owner IAC and publishers of the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and Politico — have discussed with tech companies exploring ways they might be paid for the use of their content in AI training, according to people familiar with the matter.”

“In a way, the brief flicker of Neeva’s existence tells everything you need to know about the last 20 years of search-engine supremacy. Building a search engine is hard. Building one better than Google is even harder. But if you want to beat Google, a better search engine is only the very beginning. And it only gets harder from there.”

“The Guardian’s posts appear to be largely different from its Twitter posts, with a mixture of questions to the audience and longer sells above story links and videos — for example, one post about the dangers to dogs of puppy yoga also appeared on both Instagram and Tiktok. It has posted more regularly than many other publishers, but still much less than its activity on Twitter.”

Because of course. “The lawsuit said that the network’s use of the phrase ‘the big lie’ in reference to Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler and Nazism.”

“…four short-term priorities: helping users build their lists of people to follow, improving the algorithms that decide what users see, giving users a way to see posts only from people they follow, and figuring out how to let people message each other.”

“When you’re trying to rebrand your company as indie and cool you can’t show up with the Nook. While most e-readers are slim, with small bezels and sleek exteriors, the E-Ink part of the Nook line up looks like it stumbled out of 2012. Looking at it I feel the urge to ask the Glowlight 4 who the president is.”

July 6: “Just call them tweets.”

“Of the celebrities we followed, Wiz Khalifa was the most active on Threads by far, publishing original posts and sharing other people’s messages and replies…But the rapper’s activity on Threads gradually declined…Starting on July 16, he ramped up on Twitter, sometimes posting more than 10 times a day. He is still more active on Threads, but has begun publishing similar content on both platforms.”

“Big sports-media outlets have given the bulk of their attention to games dominated by male athletes and owners. As streaming-video disrupts the traditional economics of entertainment, however, some media companies are putting a new focus on female sports, hoping that these games can draw bigger crowds — and the money that would presumably come with them.”

“OpenAI shuttered a tool that was supposed to tell human writing from AI due to a low accuracy rate…OpenAI fully admitted the classifier was never very good at catching AI-generated text and warned that it could spit out false positives, aka human-written text tagged as AI-generated.”

“I’m really proud of the work I did here. Hagfish. Lichens. Endlings. Source diversity. 60+ pandemic pieces. Long COVID especially. More important than the awards, I know this work helped people, and it changed my understanding of what journalism can do & whom it should serve.”

“‘Authors made more money in the past!’ is faulty logic. Maybe a few, disproportionally privileged, did. But most made less, and even more never received any access to traditional publishing due to discrimination and the industry’s reliance on networking.”