By Will Oremus, Cat Zakrzewski, and Justin Jouvenal, washingtonpost.com, 7-1-24 The Supreme Court on July 1 ordered lower courts to take a second look at a pair of laws in Texas and Florida that would have prevented social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts, saying the courts had not fully addressed the [...]
By Adam R. Jacobson, Radio Ink, 6-30-24 Twin 6-3 decisions in late June by the U.S. Supreme Court could usher in a new era at the FCC when it comes to how it interprets ambiguous congressional laws. The first decision (Loper Bright) erases “Chevron deference,” a practice stemming from a 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling [...]
By Ann E. Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 6-26-24 The Supreme Court on June 26 rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply restrict White House officials and other federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government deems problematic, saying the challengers did not have legal standing [...]
By Natalie Korach, TheWrap.com, 6-24-24 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) leveled two lawsuits against AI companies over mass copyright infringement of sound recordings used to train generative technology. The blockbuster lawsuits have been filed by the music companies that hold the rights to recordings allegedly infringed upon including Sony Music Entertainment, UMG [...]
FOR RELEASE: June 20, 2024 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-506-8030 Vienna, Va., June 20, 2024 – A paper released by The Media Institute’s initiative “The Madison Project: Free Speech and Press in American Democracy” looks at the threat misinformation poses to democracy and the importance of giving consumers tools for understanding [...]
By Heather Kelly, washingtonpost.com, 5-22-24 After years of Meta steadily walking away from news on its platforms, the company’s new AI tool is now using the work of those outlets for content. Meta’s new chatbot, Meta AI, is happy to scan news outlets and summarize their latest stories and headlines for anyone who asks. [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck and Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 5-13-24 As tech giant Google gears up this week for Google I/O, its annual developer conference, creators are worried about the expanding reach of its new search tool that incorporates artificial intelligence. The product, dubbed “Search Generative Experience,” or SGE, directly answers queries with complex, multi-paragraph [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck, washingtonpost.com, 4-30-24 Eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on April 30, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners. The group includes South Florida’s Sun Sentinel, the [...]
By Gerrit De Vynck and Naomi Nix, washingtonpost.com, 4-25-24 The biggest tech companies in the world have spent billions of dollars on the artificial intelligence revolution. Now, they’re planning to spend tens of billions more, pushing up demand for computer chips and potentially adding new strain to the U.S. electrical grid. In quarterly earnings [...]
By Eva Dou, washingtonpost.com, 4-25-24 The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 April 25 to put the internet back under “net neutrality” regulation, reprising Obama-era rules that prohibit service providers from discriminating against certain websites by throttling or blocking them. But there’s a key detail that remains to be worked out: how to define the [...]