“In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out. The Creative Rights in AI Coalition (Crac) includes the British Phonographic Industry, the Independent Society of Musicians, the Motion Picture Association and the Society of Authors as well as Mumsnet, the Guardian, Financial Times, Telegraph, Getty Images, the Daily Mail Group and Newsquest.”

“After Sun’s team complained about the tone of the piece, CoinDesk’s owners, the crypto exchange Bullish, demanded editorial staff remove it from the publication’s website, according to sources familiar with the matter. Tron is a major sponsor of CoinDesk’s flagship Consensus conference series. In response, sources close to CoinDesk say the site’s journalists raised concerns over editorial independence.”

“In August, Rienzie and Burkesmith were denied a permit to film an attempt to break the record for the fastest time to ascend a mountain in Grand Teton National Park. They filmed anyway from publicly accessible areas of the park using small handheld cameras and minimal equipment but haven’t fully commercialized the content due to National Park Services threatening criminal charges.”

“Facebook has severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, according to BBC research. In a comprehensive analysis of Facebook data, we found that newsrooms in the Palestinian territories — in Gaza and the West Bank — had suffered a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023. The BBC has also seen leaked documents showing that Instagram — another Meta-owned platform — increased its moderation of Palestinian user comments after October 2023. Meta, the owner of Facebook, says that any implication that it deliberately suppressed particular voices is ‘unequivocally false.'”

“For this story, L.A. TACO spoke to more than 11 people who attended the reveal party—including one of our staff members—who suspected they got food poisoning at the event.”

“The AI-powered summary falsely made it appear that BBC News had published an article claiming Mangione, the man accused of the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has not. Now, the group Reporters Without Borders has called on Apple to remove the technology. Apple has made no comment.”

“They might coming after small, independent publishers because they know we don’t have the money for a large legal defense, and they’re gonna make an example out of us, and they’re going to say that if you try anything funny, we’re going to try to bankrupt you through a frivolous lawsuit.”

“When the digital news start-up Semafor began in 2022, its founders talked about reaching a vast global audience of 200 million college-educated, English-speaking people. But their latest push is aimed at just a tiny — albeit moneyed — sliver of that: top executives. The company said Thursday that it would start an invitation-only newsletter for chief executives, The CEO Signal, in January. It will be free but available only to the leaders of companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.”

“When you describe yourself as a ‘writer’ but your writing has become hard to find, it creates a crisis not just of profession, but identity. Who am I, if not my content? It is hard not to feel the disappearance of creative work as a different kind of death of the author, one in which readers can’t interpret my work because they can’t find it.”