“The editorial page editor, David Shipley, told colleagues that the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, would publish a note to readers online early Friday afternoon. Shipley told colleagues the editorial board was told yesterday by management that there would not be an endorsement. He added that he ‘owns’ this decision. The reason he cited was to create ‘independent space’ where the newspaper does not tell people for whom to vote.”

“On Tuesday and Wednesday, the paper saw a spike in readers cancelling their subscriptions to the paper, with a total of 1,793 citing ‘editorial content’ as the reason, a number that has circulated among current and former Los Angeles Times journalists.”

“It’s the first news deal Meta has brokered in the AI era.” (The tech company has moved away from news partnerships in recent years and news is a tiny fraction of what people see on Facebook.)

“The problem with it is that the data [noted proponent of race science Richard Lynn] used to generate this dataset is just bullshit, and it’s bullshit in multiple dimensions…It’s actually not surprising [that AI systems are quoting it] because Lynn’s work in IQ has been accepted pretty unquestioningly from a huge area of academia. So the fault isn’t with AI. The fault is with academia.”

“The national initiative that awarded $100,000 to the St. Louis Argus says it has ‘paused payment’ on the grant while it looks into allegations that the newspaper has helped itself to the work of numerous other media outlets.”

“[The Rest is Politics’] format is hardly revolutionary. In hour-long shows the pair talk about the state of their respective parties, the war in the Middle East, elections in Japan and much else besides. But its success reveals two things about British politics.”

“Not to be dire, but it feels like Axios and The Athletic are going to go down as the two luckiest places that got hundreds of millions while you still could.”