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Journalists participating in the pilot program will use AI to produce bulleted “key points” of their stories.

In a major licensing deal for the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, the organization says that it has inked a multifaceted deal with the web platform Reddit. OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman is among Reddit’s largest shareholders.

The lawsuit claims Berkeley-based startup LOVO misappropriated actors’ voices to create its AI voice tool.

A bipartisan group of senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveiled a sweeping report Wednesday detailing how Congress should regulate AI, capping off a nearly year-long effort. Getting AI bills passed before the end of the year is a bipartisan goal, but time is running out with limited opportunities for floor action and the election looming. Any change in administration or congressional makeup could derail the report’s goals.

Google on Tuesday announced that it will infuse its ubiquitous search engine with its powerful artificial intelligence model, Gemini, drawing on the rapidly advancing technology to directly answer user queries at the top of results pages. On its surface that might sound convenient, but for news publishers — many of whom are already struggling with steep traffic declines — the revamped search experience will likely cause an even further decrease in audience, potentially starving them of readers and revenue. Within hours of the Mountain View announcement, the news industry began sounding the alarm.

Google will roll out new artificial intelligence features in search functions and other Google services as the company races with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to stay on the cutting edge of AI technology.

OpenAI’s latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic human cadences in its verbal responses and can even try to detect people’s moods. Pictured: OpenAI has introduced a new artificial intelligence model. It says it works faster than previous versions and can reason across text, audio and video in real time. (Michael Dwyer/AP)

Tech leaders working on the cutting edge of AI in media share how it can already be used to extensively version content and usher in a new era of efficiency, as well as safeguards emerging across the industry for content authentication and rights protection in this panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference. Click here to register as a TVN subscriber and get access to all videos from this exclusive event.

Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative AI to iPhones after the company’s most significant reorganization in a decade.

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. The announcement date, though subject to change, has not been previously reported. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet’s Google and with Perplexity, a well-funded AI search startup.

TikTok will start labeling artificial intelligence-generated content uploaded from other platforms as part of a push to tackle misinformation, the company said Thursday. TikTok is partnering with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a project that supplies resources necessary to identify AI-generated content.

eBay Ads leads the company’s organization that runs the machine learning (ML) and the AI recommender systems, a data-filtering tool that uses AI and ML to suggest items to users. They are commonly used by ecommerce and social media sites. It also powers eBay’s $1.4 billion business, which helps sellers reach customers with ads and organic recommendations.

The Pulitzer Center has officially kicked off The AI Spotlight Series, a new training initiative that aims to teach 1,000 journalists how to do AI accountability reporting over the next two years. On April 21, roughly 40 journalists gathered at the University of California, Berkeley for the inaugural “Introduction to AI reporting” session, which was built to demystify basic AI concepts for reporters outside the tech beat.

As desperate AI companies face training data shortages, news organizations are finding new ways to fight back against the AI scraping of their content without permission (Jon Accarrino/MidJourney). This is the debut of TVNewsCheck’s new AI & TV column from veteran executive Jon Accarrino, founder of the media technology and AI strategy firm Ordo Digital.

Artificial intelligence is proving both a blessing and a bane for news publishers. On the one hand, generative AI technologies promise productivity gains for newsrooms when used responsibly and transparently. However, it also has the potential to create a minefield of misinformation for the public and for journalists to navigate. There’s also the allegation of copyright infringement that news publishers have begun to legally challenge. These are just a few examples of how AI disrupts news, but there’s another: AI-powered search.

The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a New York federal court.

A raft of startups, companies and governments are trying to develop new chips to unlock AI’s power in space. The harsh conditions of space have so far limited the use of AI on board satellites that play a critical role in the space economy. AI could help fuel growth in the space industry, which some predict will be worth as much as $1.8 trillion by 2035 — on par with the semiconductor industry. But right now the space industry is in “the Dark Ages,” says former NASA administrator Dan Goldin. “Instead of doing edge computing, it is done in data centers and mission control.”

Cynthia Lieberman: In the right hands and with thoughtful application, artificial intelligence has the potential to save and revitalize authentic journalism by empowering real reporters and producers to generate more and better stories.

Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

On Tuesday, a group of archival producers presented a draft set of best practices for using generative AI tools in Los Angeles, noting a “danger of forever muddying the historical record.” Pictured: In a demonstration of OpenAI’s video tool Sora, this still was created from the prompt, “The camera directly faces colorful buildings in Burano, Italy. An adorable dalmatian looks through a window on a building on the ground floor.” (OpenAI)

Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board is reviewing the company’s handling of two sexually explicit AI-generated images of female celebrities that circulated on its Facebook and Instagram services, the board said on Tuesday. The board, which is funded by the social media giant but operates independently from it, will use the two examples to assess the overall effectiveness of Meta’s policies and enforcement practices around pornographic fakes created using artificial intelligence, it said in a blog post.