“Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador, was arrested by local police on June 14 while covering a protest just outside Atlanta and was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement several days later. He has been held at an immigration detention center in Folkston — in southeast Georgia, near the Florida border — since then.”

“The new language replaces our original framing which was centered on how everything we do ‘will be written or produced by a real person with a real identity. There will be NO AI-written stories.’ That was written years ago and was unnecessarily limiting as we’ve learned more about what AI tools can and can’t do.”

“Almost all the students I interviewed in the past few months described the same trajectory: from using AI to assist with organizing their thoughts to off-loading their thinking altogether. For some, it became something akin to social media, constantly open in the corner of the screen, a portal for distraction.”

“[The] subjects of travel articles — cruise lines, safari operators, airlines, and hotels — buy most if not all of travel-magazine advertising and thereby sustain those writers’ salaries. It is also an industry whose cash-strapped publishers rely upon underpaid freelancers to write about experiences costing $10,000 or more.”

“The refiling of the lawsuit at the state level shields it from being subject to an ‘Anti-SLAPP’ measure that Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed in May and takes effect Tuesday.”

“In a 99-1 vote, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to strike an amendment to the Republican economic policy package that would have imposed a decade-long moratorium on attempts to regulate AI by the states.”

The number of satellites currently in space. Of these, 7,500 belong to Starlink. (Rest of World / Khadija Alam)

“The missive marks the first known instance of the 60 Minutes correspondents [Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim, and Cecilia Vega] taking a firm and unified stance on how they expect their parent company to respond to Trump’s lawsuit.”

“I ask Ridding what he makes of some news owners and executives in the U.S. caving to Trumpian pressure. ‘My main thought, actually, is how incredibly fortunate we are to have Nikkei as an owner,’ he says, without missing a beat. ‘Their steadfast support for editorial independence is inspiring, and it’s reassuring.'”

Previously: “Newsrooms are playing Russian roulette with libel insurance.”