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The articles on a local news site popping up around the country appear to cover what any community outlet would focus on: crime, local politics, weather and happenings. “In-depth reporting about your home area,” the outlet’s slogan proudly declares. But a closer look at the bylines populating the local site and a national network of others — Sarah Kim, Jake Rodriguez, Mitch M. Rosenthal — reveals a tiny badge with the letters “AI.” These are not real bylines. In fact, the names don’t even belong to real humans. The articles were written with the use of artificial intelligence.

New data reveals AI job growth and wages are significantly outpacing the general job market.

The comments from CEO Tony Vinciquerra were made in the midst of ongoing negotiations between Hollywood’s major crew union and top studios.

Fable Studio, an Emmy-winning San Francisco startup, on Thursday announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial release, users will be able to watch AI-generated series and create their own content — complete with the ability to control dialogue, characters and shot types, among other controls.

Evolving tech is blurring lines and encroaching on artists’ terrain. But rather than just fighting AI, the industry must harness it in creative new ways, writes power player Dawn Ostroff.

The deals give OpenAI added momentum in its quest for credible content to train its algorithms and inform its chatbots — and could also protect the Microsoft-backed company further from future copyright liability. Both multi-year partnerships include agreements in which OpenAI is able to license the publishers’ archived content to train its AI models.

The safety committee arrives as debate swirls around AI safety at the company, which was thrust into the spotlight after a researcher, Jan Leike, resigned and leveled criticism at OpenAI for letting safety “take a backseat to shiny products.” OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever also resigned, and the company disbanded the “superalignment” team focused on AI risks that they jointly led.

Zeev Neumeier, who founded Inscape and was a pioneer in automatic content recognition, is beta-testing his new venture, GraySwan. GraySwan’s artificial intelligence technology plugs into existing connected TV ad tech stacks to eliminate unusual occurrences — so-called gray swans — and make campaigns run more efficiently.

As tech companies race to perfect machines that can already produce humanlike text, summarize long documents and describe images and videos, media companies, including Barry Diller’s IAC, are struggling to figure out where they fit into the new gold rush.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday that companies that train their artificial intelligence models on data from news websites, artists’ creations or people’s personal information could be in violation of antitrust laws.

WPP has struck a deal to integrate Amazon-backed Anthropic’s suite of AI large language models (branded as Claude) into its marketing operating system WPP Open. The holding company has similar agreements with other large language model providers including Open AI and Google’s Gemini. Large language models — a type of generative AI — use machine learning to recognize and generate text and other content.

The Disney CEO talks brand-building and maintaining company culture at the inaugural Canva Create event. Iger, who is an investor and board member of the privately held online design platform, commended Canva for embracing the potential of generative AI tools and other cutting-edge technologies to make high-end visual media design tools readily available to everyday users.

The U.S. public trusts tech companies leading the generative AI wave — Like Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI — more than firms chiefly known as social media platforms, like Meta, ByteDance and X. These findings — part of the 2024 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings — show that continued fallout from public disenchantment with social media could hamper those companies’ effort to reinvent themselves as AI innovators.

OpenAI has inked deals in recent weeks with Reddit and Dotdash Meredith, but also found itself in hot water with actress Scarlett Johansson.

Colorado’s bill and six others that faltered in Washington, Connecticut and elsewhere faced battles on many fronts, including between civil rights groups and the tech industry, and lawmakers wary of wading into a technology few yet understand and governors worried about being the odd-state-out and spooking AI startups.

Local TV stations are always looking for new revenue opportunities, but could their archive of documentaries be an untapped goldmine? Here’s how AI can help generate new digital revenue from long-form VOD content, while also providing a better ad experience for viewers.

The FCC introduced a measure Wednesday that would require political advertisements to disclose the use of artificial intelligence software, in what could be the federal government’s first foray into regulating the use of the technology in politics.

Following other major social media platforms, LinkedIn has announced that it will begin adding labels to in-stream content created by generative artificial intelligence so its users better understand the posts they are interacting with.   

As part of a much broader push into AI-powered data and analytics products aimed at the ad industry, Google on Tuesday unveiled plans for a new marketing mix modeling platform, Meridian, that will be offered to advertisers and agencies later this year.

Voice actors are filing lawsuits while SAG-AFTRA is rallying lawmakers to bar AI companies from misappropriating members’ likenesses.

Major tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI, came together in a landmark international agreement on artificial intelligence safety on Tuesday. Following the agreement, these companies will make voluntary commitments to ensure the safe development of their most advanced AI models.

Colorado will require developers of artificial intelligence (AI) to avoid discrimination in high-risk systems as part of a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Jared Polis (D). The first-in-the-nation law adds requirements for developers of “high-risk” AI systems to “use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination.”

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.