As part of the transaction, the casino company Penn Entertainment is selling Barstool Sports back to its founder, David Portnoy.

“During public comment or in a presentation by a Spanish speaker, a translated transcription of the person’s words can be seen on large screens at the front of the room. Accuracy depends on the speed and clarity of the speaker, but the audience can also see how the AI technology will often try to fix the sentence and clean up words so it makes sense.”

The publishers asked the Competition Bureau to prohibit Meta from continuing to block Canadians’ access to news and pressed Meta to “refrain from discriminating, by algorithm or by any other means, against content from Canadian news organizations.” Meta “began the process of ending news availability” on Facebook and Instagram in Canada earlier this month.

“The struggling digital media company that shuttered its news branch amid companywide layoffs in April reported second-quarter revenue of $77.9 million Tuesday and a net loss of $27.8 million, for a loss per share of 20 cents, missing Wall Street estimates.”

Reporter Peter De Vries’ killing was the most serious attack on journalist safety in a country where press freedom has long been taken for granted.

“Despite slower ad and sponsorship sales, The Atlantic has currently booked more overall revenue to date compared to this time last year, thanks to a surge in subscriptions, Thompson said.” (For context, roughly 60% of The Atlantic’s revenue comes from consumer subscriptions and 40% from advertising and events.)

“The phones keep us safe in a way. People protesting point them at the police officers, so they don’t arrest or shoot us.”

The ABC cited “toxic interactions” and increasing costs.

“Portnoy gets hundreds of millions of dollars via the original Penn Gaming sale — albeit not all $551 million, since an outside investor owned 51% — and less than four years later gets back 100% control of what he sold.”