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Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models

YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway, and ...
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CPB grants $1.1M to form Upper Midwest Newsroom

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Why Sam Altman really wants you to use OpenAI’s new browser

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How to spot fake AI-written press releases

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TikTok sympathy scams use racial slurs and insults to sell products

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ICE and the smartphone panopticon

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When this reporter comes calling, the White House insults go flying

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How to make music popular again

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BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and interrogated repeatedly

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How Andrew Cuomo’s dreams of becoming a radio star fell apart

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The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah

A local volunteer advisory committee, whose members appear on The Southern Utah Tribune’s masthead, will provide input on ...
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Paramount lays off 1,000 workers in first round of cuts

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