Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so, WIRED has learned.AWS spokesperson...
If you want to understand the current crisis at The Washington Post—the still-unfolding ethical scandal threatening the reign of its publisher and CEO, the growing newsroom revolt, the tumult and uncertainty about the paper’s future—you have to start with...
David Wolf has been editor of the Long Read since the UK-based Guardian launched the section 10 years ago. The Long Read world sounds like a dream for those of us who love longform stories, and Wolf the kind...
Big Tech is building its latest technology on the intellectual property anduncompensated use of expression, content and data collected online and in databases.Journalistic content, which is far more than just a collection of facts and is often gathered at...
It’s becoming more and more apparent that AI is changing a vast range of things for us news media. At Google IO, multimodality was mentioned numerous times (almost as many as AI!). Very soon we’ll be in a world...
Some teens and other people with mental health challenges have been turning to online platforms for emotional support from “caring strangers,” or at least that’s the idea. But a recent five-story series on Mashable.com by reporter Rebecca Ruiz exposed...
The 2024 Digital News Report of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism arrived in my mailbox a week ago. At almost the same time came the latest financial transparency report of elDiario.es, a daily investigative news outlet...
With the presidential election just months away, reporters continue to grapple with the conundrum of how to cover a two-party system in which one party is acting anti-democratically.Just last month, House Speaker Mike Johnson went after another branch of...
YouTube is in talks with record labels to license their songs for artificial intelligence tools that clone popular artists’ music, hoping to win over a sceptical industry with upfront payments.The Google-owned video site needs labels’ content to legally train AI...
At the annual meeting of the world’s fact-checkers in 2024 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina — our 11th GlobalFact meeting — it is time to restate our longstanding commitment to access to information and freedom of expression, for all...
