“Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be integrated into ChatGPT’s existing interface. The feature determines when to tap into web results based on queries, though users can also manually trigger web searches. ChatGPT’s web search integration finally closes a key competitive gap with rivals like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, which have long offered real-time internet access in their AI conversations.”

“For Musk, the platform has become a useful political weapon of confusion, a machine retrofitted to poison the information environment by filling it with dangerous, false, and unsubstantiated rumors about election fraud that can reach mass audiences. How much does it cost to successfully (to use Steve Bannon’s preferred phrasing) flood the zone with shit? Thanks to Musk’s acquisition, we can put a figure on it: $44 billion.”

“Dahdouh had barely stepped out of the hospital before he was being interviewed. For weeks he had reported the deaths of others, and now he was the story. In the air raid that claimed his wife and two of his children, Dahdouh’s brother’s five grandchildren – all under 10 – were also killed.”

“[Among other ideas] the media personality and entrepreneur Kara Swisher has told people she is interested in assembling a consortium of wealthy investors to make a bid for the newspaper, should Bezos opt to sell…Swisher’s idea would be to merge Vox Media with The Post, given the former would fill in some of the gaps the latter could use, such as a more robust podcasting business.”

“The threat for the Times is real: Should the union opt to go on strike on its Election Day deadline, as its more than 600 members overwhelmingly voted to authorize last month, it risks upending the Times’ election coverage, potentially taking the Grey Lady offline entirely.”

“We have seen over and over and over what happens when billionaires decide to exert their will on the prestige publications they decided to buy on a lark, and we have seen what happens when they lose interest in their side projects. It is never good for the people doing the work there…The ‘wealth and business interests’ of billionaire owners, as Bezos writes, are not a ‘bulwark against intimidation’ for journalism. They are, themselves, the biggest threat.”

“The FCC has rules around political advertising on broadcast networks. Stations can’t reject or censor ads paid for by qualified campaigns — even if they’re graphic or offensive.” The ad was paid for by Randall Terry, a longtime anti-abortion activist whose “playbook involves taking advantage of this rule.”

“If you scream, no one will hear you. Who should we request security from?” – Umar Daraz Wazir, a North Waziristan-based correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

“Again, their style is their choice, but the claim that ours is a ‘tricky’ case is persiflage and gaslight.”

“That’s the thing that I’m particularly obsessed with, is the emergence of the distrust of legacy media outlets on the left. I have been really interested specifically in the idea that the media has not been covering Trump statements and comments and various, what these people perceive as, misdeeds. And that they have not been covering it with sufficient magnitude.”