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New York Times Union Urges Management to Reconsider 9 Art Department Cuts as Paper Ramps Up AI Tools. The Guild is saying a move to AI is to blame for cuts; management disgarees. The Wrap

AI’s coming inverted pyramid moment for journalism. An interesting column from David Cohn that considers how the act of journalism might change if AI eases the burden of writing and production. Poynter

After the Yahoo News app revamp, Yahoo preps AI summaries on homepage, too. Yahoo recently bought the buzzy news app Artifact, and it’s applying some of that tech to its well-visited properties. TechCrunch

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Newsbreak: Most downloaded US news app ‘writes fiction’ using AI. A great investigation into shoddy AI use by NewsBreak, a Chinese-owned news aggregation service. Reuters

AI’s next challenge: how to forget. WIth some publishers fighting back against the archives being scraped by AI companies, how hard is it for large language models to “unlearn”? Politico

Sam Altman's OpenAI is paying publishers big money for content. That could be a lifeline — or blow up in their faces. Peter Kafka asks the question of whether news executives have learned anything from the failed media-tech pacts of the past. Business Insider ($)

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Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for ‘F**ksmith’ to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue. When Google Search turns to Redditors for help, bad things happen. 404 Media ($)

OpenAI Is Making Journalism an Offer It Can’t Refuse. There is no opting out of artificial intelligence, so getting paid makes sense, but the deals with publishers don’t bode well for the future of newsgathering. Bloomberg Opinion (note: I wrote this.)

Game-Changers and Missteps in AI in Documentary Film. *”*Today I’ll be sharing the best and worst uses of AI I’ve come across in the wide, wonderful world of documentaries. Obviously, since documentaries tell, you know, true stories, it can be a particularly fraught area to incorporate AI.” No Film School

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As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? Max Tani on how Apple News has become a key, and lucrative, distribution model for media companies large and small. Semafor

UK working on rules for training of AI models with creative work. UK's culture secretary promises stricter rules of the road for training AI, after concern raised by media and arts groups. Financial Times

How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda. News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible. The Guardian

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News industry divides over AI. Sara Fischer delves into the implications of news orgs getting into bed with AI companies with content licensing deals. Axios

AI Movies Aren’t Just a Gimmick Anymore. Rachel Metz reports on the second annual AI film festival, held in downtown LA last week. In short: this year’s films are much better than last’s. Bloomberg

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