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Instagram saw all the nonconsensual imagery generated by Grok earlier this year and still decided to opt in all of its adult users to having their photos "remixed" by AI www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.

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U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists (Gift Article)

A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.

celebrating my 8 year anniversary at the NYT by, of course, publishing a story www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/t...

Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I. (Gift Article)

Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.

Very exciting to see @coyotemedia.org in CJR! I love this direction for local reporting: www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

Coyote Media: They’ve got bite.

Coyote, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political.

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we worked on a big study of this issue a few months ago www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? (Gift Article)

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

If you've ever thought, wow, I'd love to hear @rmac.bsky.social and kate yap about how they wrote a book, please mark your calendar: sabew.org/event/always...

Always Wanted to Write a Book? Here's how. | SABEW

Writing a book offers creative freedom, and the opportunity to dive into a topic in depth. For many journalists, it's the logical next step in the big story they've been covering. But how do you flesh...