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Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists

Wired ↗ · 2026-10-26 Cached

AI agents are increasingly pitching stories to news outlets, with many originating from the iLands platform where bots seek token-earning work. Editors report being flooded by such pitches, while individual experiments like 'The Sam Ellis Show' highlight the growing but awkward presence of autonomous agents in journalism.

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FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about

Ars Technica ↗ · 2026-10-21

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters against airing polls he called "fake," echoing President Trump's complaints about news coverage, while critics note outlets have already reported context on exposed polling hoaxes.

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Credit where credit is due

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-16 Cached

Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell's Washington Post op-ed on AI cheating was flagged as largely LLM-generated by the Pangram detector, and even his email defending his use of AI was found to be '100% AI-written,' raising broader questions about authorship and accountability in AI-assisted writing.

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Why We're Banning AI

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-15 Cached

Current Affairs magazine announces a strict anti-AI policy banning AI-generated text and art, criticizing the broader media industry's rush to replace human writers with AI content and warning against the 'slopification' of media.

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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer

Wired ↗ · 2026-10-12

联邦调查人员获得搜查许可,使用被称为伪基站(cell-site simulators)的侵入性监控技术追踪记者 Georgia Fort、一名明尼苏达州参议院候选人,以及 Don Lemon 的制片人,引发隐私与新闻自由方面的关注。

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@zhuifei008: The New York Times long-form feature wrote about CZ's current life, and after reading it, I had just one feeling: this …

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-10-10 Cached

纽约时报长篇特写报道了CZ(赵长鹏)的近况:服刑4个月、缴纳43亿美元罚款后,他仍以'技术人'身份在阿布扎比活跃,凭借'管辖权套利'策略游走全球监管体系,持续影响加密行业格局。

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The New AI Slop Is Calling Everything AI Slop

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-10-07 Cached

评论文章探讨'AI slop'一词如何变质:如今人们动辄给精心撰写的内容贴上'这是AI写的'标签,这种无凭据的指控不仅惩罚了认真写作的人,也让真正的机器灌水内容获得伪装。

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You Know That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind? These Strongly Appear to Be His Bizarre Old Tweets

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-07 Cached

Internet sleuths uncovered old tweets apparently belonging to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon, whose warning that AI "could kill us all" helped spur an AI safety push, including climate denial posts and other controversial remarks.

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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

The Verge ↗ · 2026-10-05 Cached

An OpenAI publicist interrupted Vanity Fair's interview with Sam Altman to avoid questions about a ChatGPT user's suicide, prompting criticism of the company's media handling of AI mental-health risks.

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DataWeave: Deploying Human-LLM Analytics for Exploratory Structured Data Analysis

arXiv cs.AI ↗ · 2026-10-05 Cached

DataWeave is a system combining conversational interaction, schema grounding, analytical planning, and executable query generation to support human–LLM exploratory analysis of structured datasets, validated in a case study with journalists analyzing the U.S. Department of Education's IPEDS data.

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Should AI writing disclosure be about degree of use rather than a yes/no question?

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-29

The article discusses whether AI writing disclosure should be based on the degree of AI use rather than a yes/no question, referencing a Fortune piece that proposes a self-reported scale for transparency.

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Future of news collides with AI, data center debates, editor writes

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-09-25 Cached

An opinion piece discusses how AI and data centers, particularly the Stargate Project led by SoftBank and OpenAI, may severely impact local news organizations by reducing traffic and revenue, highlighting concerns about labor theft and the future of journalism.

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What AI means for local news, and why The Staffordshire Signal is part of World News Day 2026

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-25 Cached

The article discusses how AI affects local journalism and highlights The Staffordshire Signal's participation in World News Day 2026, emphasizing the need for fact-based reporting in the age of AI-generated content.

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Help 404 Media Find Out How Your Local Police Are Surveiling You

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-21 Cached

404 Media is investigating police departments' use of Axon license plate recognition cameras and calling for public assistance to obtain activity logs to uncover surveillance practices and data sharing with other agencies.

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What happened to the Snowden archive

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-20 Cached

The article details the timeline of the Snowden archive's publication by major news outlets, ending with the final documents released in May 2019, and explores the reasons behind the cessation of further publications.

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AI models are not hacking “autonomously”

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-19 Cached

The article debunks media reports that AI models like Gemini hacked autonomously, explaining they were part of a test by a company with poor security practices, and safeguards were removed during testing.

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an AI actress interviewed with CNN and it guessed the journalist's age and location within a minute

Reddit r/artificial ↗ · 2026-09-18

An AI-generated actress named Tilly Norwood from Particle6 conducted press interviews with CNN, NBC, and CBS, causing discomfort by accurately guessing journalists' details and highlighting ethical issues with AI presenting as non-existent people, in contrast to transparent avatar tools.

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Ars Technica ↗ · 2026-09-17 Cached

Internal documents from Microsoft and OpenAI reveal executives' concerns that AI scraping of news content is the 'largest theft of labor in human history' and could create a 'doom loop' harming news organizations and model performance.

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Introducing the WIRED App

Wired ↗ · 2026-09-16 Cached

The new WIRED app is launched on iPhone and Android, offering personalized content, multimedia features, and community engagement for readers.

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Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-13 Cached

A Flock Safety worker called police on a reporter filming the installation of a public camera, highlighting ongoing debates about AI-powered surveillance and privacy amid criticism of Flock Safety's technology.

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