“Amazon would be the most high-profile bidder for the company, which has also attracted interest from the billionaire Frank McCourt as well as Jesse Tinsley, the founder of the payroll firm Employer.com.”

“The administration is finalizing plans for potential investors that could include Blackstone and Oracle, as well as a long list of other investors that will likely involve blue chip private equity firms, venture capital firms, and major investors in the technology industry…over the weekend, Mr. Trump said of TikTok, ‘We have a lot of potential buyers. There’s a lot of interest in TikTok. The decision is going to be my decision.'”

“The reporters use an Al-powered CMS to rewrite press releases into stories, and are tasked with checking the facts and quotes are correct in the output…[an executive] added the Al-assisted reporters helped because ‘we’ve got a lot more space to fill in those newspapers now, because there’s not many adverts in them.'”

“[Fact-checker Rachel] Gilmore says she received no criticism or negative feedback from CTV on the quality of her work and was told that the decision to cancel the segment was made purely to avoid the ‘distraction’ created by her online ‘troll base.'”

“This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to AI models. Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the amount of traffic generated by scraper bots is unprecedented and presents growing risks and costs.”

“‘It’s funny money,’ said Andrew Verstein, professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, Law School. ‘It’s like using Monopoly money to buy Pokémon cards.'”

“The popular data maven has signed a deal with NBC that will expand his presence across the network’s news and sports divisions…Kornacki, 45, will continue to be NBC’s go-to expert for statistical analysis of polls and election results and during major sporting events, including Triple Crown horse racing, the Olympics and the NFL.”

“Al-generated videos can struggle with maintaining consistent storytelling, but Runway claims on X that the new model, Gen-4, should allow users more ‘continuity and control’ while telling stories…As an example, the startup released a video of a woman maintaining her appearance in different shots and contexts across a variety of lighting conditions.”

“He also said he was working with an adviser from a major financial firm to build or acquire a company focused on community news…he said he was excited to ‘sing for his supper’ on the podcast and eager to find a business solution to a problem that had vexed investors for decades: the collapse of local news.”

“Last year’s core updates threw publishers for a loop. A core update in March 2024 aimed at cleaning up spam and low-quality content in Google search results hit news publishers hard, with many seeing their sites’ search visibility fall. Another change to Google’s algorithm at the end of the year decimated publishers’ product review sites.”

“Meta employees estimate pricing for the device, which is code named Hypernova, will come in at over $1,000 and as high as $1,300 to $1,400…The significant price increase for the new model is driven almost entirely by the screen, which is a monocular panel that will be located in the lower-right quadrant of the right lens.”

“‘I would like people to be held accountable for what they’ve done…You’re ruining my life by talking about it on your show for nothing but attention, but here I am staying up until 5 in the morning, every night, throwing up, not eating because I’m so anxious about what’s going to happen for the rest of my life.’ An ESPN spokesperson declined to comment.”

“NaNoWriMo — an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month — is an annual challenge for writers to complete a rough draft of a novel during the month of November…NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing.”

“We write to express deep concern over your actions to target and intimidate news organizations and broadcasters in violation of the First Amendment…directing FCC staff to devote time and resources to bogus investigations constitutes a violation of the law, gross mismanagement, extreme waste of funds, and an abuse of authority.”

“If there’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s ‘you have to be fair to both sides…when bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fairly and respectfully. When you watch The Sound of Music, you have to root for the singing children and the other people.”

“Substack plans to protect foreign writers ‘residing lawfully’ in the U.S. who may be targeted by the government for what they write. The company is partnering with the nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) to provide legal support to impacted writers — whether they publish on Substack or not — citing recent attacks on free speech.”

“Today’s in-language and community-based news media ecosystem dramatically eclipses its early forebears in both size and scale — there are more than 690 AAPI news media outlets, serving their audiences in 56 languages across the U.S.”