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Max Spero—a cofounder of Pangram, an AI detection tool popular among journalists—asks, “If you’re not going to bother writing your newsletter, why should I read it?”

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

A legal loophole kept “skill games” from being considered gambling. Now lawmakers are trying to save them from a court ruling.

When it comes to emoji usage, we’re all just following teen girls.

The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.

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Catherine Herridge, a former Fox News reporter, is being compelled to pay $800 a day until she reveals confidential sources.

How a media outlet funded by conservative donors is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left.”

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Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.”

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When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

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State Freedom of Information coalitions exist to help journalists and the public obtain government records. But a new survey shows that the very journalists and public records requesters these…