“On Monday morning, John Micklethwait, Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, reportedly sent staff an email saying that the outlet has taken disciplinary action against a ‘number of those involved’ in breaking the embargo. ‘Even if our story mercifully ended up making no difference, it was a clear violation of the editorial standards which have made this newsroom so trusted around the world,’ the email reads.”

“A former Nvidia employee, whom 404 Media granted anonymity to speak about internal Nvidia processes, said that employees were asked to scrape videos from Netflix, YouTube, and other sources to train an AI model for Nvidia … Emails viewed by 404 Media show project managers discussing using 20 to 30 virtual machines in Amazon Web Services to download 80 years-worth of videos per day.”

“Five secretaries of state plan to send an open letter to billionaire Elon Musk on Monday, urging him to ‘immediately implement changes’ to X’s AI chatbot Grok, after it shared with millions of users false information suggesting that Kamala Harris was not eligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot.”

“The publisher redesigned its website, inserting more ad units, multimedia and recirculation tools, and hired a direct sales team for the first time in its 178-year-old history. To diversify its revenue further, it launched a donation platform in November and an affiliate marketing operation in March. Following the overhaul, the publisher has seen upticks in its traffic, digital ad revenue—from both direct and programmatic sources—and video consumption, according to chief revenue officer Kristin Heitmann.”

“’The fact that the Israeli claims haven’t been backed up by solid evidence doesn’t mean our reporting was inaccurate or misleading, that we have walked it back or that there is a correctable error here,’ Elena Cherney, the Wall Street Journal’s chief news editor, wrote in an email earlier this year seen by Semafor. That one of the paper’s biggest and most impactful stories about the war was based on information it could not verify is a startling acknowledgement.'”

“‘When you’re the Olympic broadcaster, your audience is everybody. And, it’s young and old. It’s multigenerational, multicultural,’ said Zenkel. ‘There are certainly audiences, especially among younger generations, who spend more time on short-form content than they do on longer, more traditional, programming. And we will reach them through these platforms.’”

“Trending Now, which aggregates the top B2B stories in sectors such as construction into AI-generated newsletters, received the legal letter days after Press Gazette reported on the fact it had passed one million subscriptions. Buzzfeed also sent a similar letter to Press Gazette, saying our story was adding to Trending Now’s ‘infringement’ because it featured two screenshots of the brand’s website in which the logo was visible.”

The company is talking with Judi Dench, Awkwafina and Keegan-Michael Key, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project is confidential. Representatives for Meta declined to comment … While it’s not entirely clear how Meta will be using the voices, it has discussed a chatbot that could serve as a digital assistant, à la Apple’s Siri, or a friend, the people said. Users could speak with a chatbot that has the voice of Awkwafina, for example.”

“Talks inside the BBC have focused on protecting future audiences from upsetting repeats of his most visible work in news and on state occasions, such as the funerals of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II: ‘We are actively considering the availability of our archive,’ a BBC spokesperson said. ‘While we don’t routinely delete content from the BBC archive, as it is a matter of historical record, we do consider the continued use and reuse of material.'”

“An audio engineer at Crooked Media in Los Angeles and a member of the bargaining committee, added that given the company’s progressive roots, the hope is this contract could provide a way forward for others in the podcasting and media industry. ‘We all know Crooked is a progressive media company, espouses progressive values, and we really think that Crooked basically has an opportunity to set an industry standard, show everybody else how it’s done, how it could be if we choose to live those values.'”

“The original headline in the Boston Globe, which ran on Friday, read ‘Transgender boxer advances.’ It appeared on an Associated Press wire report written by Greg Beacham, which does not misidentify Khelif. In the retraction note, the storied New England paper admitted it made a ‘significant error’ in the headline. ‘This editing lapse is regrettable and unacceptable and we apologize to Khelif, to Associated Press writer Greg Beacham, and to you, our readers.'”