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Oct 19, 2026

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Rogue AI Agents Answer Investigator's Emails: Hashtag Trending

Oct 19 · 1 Mention

Jim LoveHOST

5:19

It says website owners can still block crawling through robots.txt, a file that tells automated visitors which pages they should leave alone.

Jim LoveHOST

5:30

But legal experts interviewed by Harvard's Nieman Lab remain concerned.

Jim LoveHOST

5:35

They say permission to develop business products could still encompass AI training.

Jim LoveHOST

5:40

And the revised contract does not explicitly promise to honor those blocking instructions.

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Everyone's Rich... So, Who's Paying the Bill?

Oct 19 · 1 Mention

Orlando WoodHOST

2:01

There's no opt-out.

Orlando WoodHOST

2:03

Legal experts quoted by Nieman Labs say this could give Meta a contractual basis to use publishers' content to train AI.

Orlando WoodHOST

2:10

And trust me, this won't stop with publishers.

Orlando WoodHOST

2:12

They've just picked the weakest calf in the herd to pick on.

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You Already Gave AI the Keys | Briefly, AI

Oct 17 · 1 Mention

Harry SharmanHOST

1:26

Someone left the key under the mat, and a machine that never gets bored tried every mat.

Harry SharmanHOST

1:30

Second, The Verge reports, citing Nieman Lab, that Meta's new business terms appear to let it crawl and scrape websites associated with the businesses using its platforms, including publishers, and use that content to train its AI.

Harry SharmanHOST

1:44

They take effect on the thirtieth of October.

Harry SharmanHOST

1:47

Note the mechanism.

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Taiwan's Chip Lockdown: Smuggling Becomes a Crime

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

Sam WhitfieldHOST

2:38

The new language appears to let Meta crawl and scrape any website associated with a business account on its platforms, including publishers.

Sam WhitfieldHOST

2:45

Legal experts told Nieman Lab that Meta could argue its terms override robots.txt blocking.

Sam WhitfieldHOST

2:51

Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts denies any change, saying content owners can still use robots.txt, but the terms explicitly allow using that content to train AI.

Sam WhitfieldHOST

3:01

This could give Meta access to far more content than its existing licensing deals with CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and People Inc. AI-driven layoffs have cost one hundred and seventeen thousand jobs and eight point five billion dollars this year in the US, per Newsbytes app.

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2026-10-16 · Meta opens Muse Spark, Japan funds fabs

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

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6:16

Also, Teradyne is investing three hundred million dollars in FormFactor to co-develop test for high bandwidth memory and advanced packaging.

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6:23

Nieman Lab reports, citing legal experts, that Meta's new commercial terms for business accounts would let it scrape those businesses' websites and license their content, hitting news publishers.

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6:34

Commenters questioned how a publisher can sub-license content it only licenses itself, and noted that asking for a license at all undercuts the industry argument that training needs none.

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6:45

In markets, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh spoke Thursday night and, two weeks before the rate decision, again gave no guidance.

ChatEDU – The AI & Education Podcast

Unacceptable Risk - What Educators and Parents Need to Know | Ep. 132

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

Matt MervisHOST

38:46

All right, then we have just in the news this week a bunch of stories that are kinda interesting.

Matt MervisHOST

38:49

Nieman Lab discovered that, um, have you tried having Gemini or ChatGPT make a New Yorker style cartoon for something?

Elizabeth RaddayHOST

38:56

Yeah, a couple times.

Matt MervisHOST

38:57

Yeah.

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Arts, Culture And Digital Storytelling

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

RileyHOST

3:04

That question about who gets consulted carries well beyond one park, and it's worth keeping in mind as we move on.

RileyHOST

3:11

The Nieman Lab study reports that Fox News attacks the media roughly every 15 minutes, while CNN draws the same kind of attack about every 140 minutes.

RileyHOST

3:21

The study ties that gap to trust.

RileyHOST

3:23

Gallup found that only 8% of Republicans expressed trust in the news media in 2025, against 51% of Democrats.

The Daily AI Show

Is Middle Management the Real Job AI Replaces?

Oct 8 · 1 Mention

Brian MaucereHOST

46:59

Yeah.

Andy HallidayHOST

46:59

And this was an investigation done by the Nieman Lab and published on Monday this week.

Andy HallidayHOST

47:05

And, uh, a reporter, Andrew Deck, found the signatures or pen names of more than 15 contributors on AI-generated images, meaning their, their art was, was captured by the AI and attributed.

Brian MaucereHOST

47:23

Of course, yeah.

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OpenAI Watermarks: The Signature Forgery Problem

Oct 7 · 3 Mentions

AllenHOST