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Bauer Media Group to make job cuts as part of major restructure of its digital businesses The magazine publisher citied the impact of AI Overviews reducing clickthroughs to publisher websites

Absolutely brutal all-staff call currently taking place at the BBC. Up to 2,000 job cuts coming in Sept. BBC bosses painting bleak picture of finances. "Our funding model has reached end of life," interim DG Rhodri Talfan Davies said, per one insider. deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-pl…

NEWS: Anthropic's new model, Claude Mythos, is so powerful that it is not releasing it to the public. Instead, it is starting a 40-company coalition, Project Glasswing, to allow cybersecurity defenders a head start in locking down critical software. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec…

NEW: AP plans staff cuts, restructuring amid broader business shift - Revenue from newspaper groups has fallen 25% in last 4 years, while revenue from Big Tech has increased 200% - Cuts will impact fewer 5% global staff axios.com/2026/04/06/ap-…

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript. They found 15 ethical violations. Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them. ChatGPT broke all of them. The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found. Here is what they found. ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse. It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion. It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this. And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not. The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none. No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing. Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger. And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.

Today we published a report on younger news audiences. Authored by Craig T. Robertson, @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social and @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on DNR and other surveys Full report reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understanding-… Seven findings in thread

New: The Observer has offered voluntary redundancy to all 140 staff members The overhaul comes just under a year after the Guardian sold the Sunday title to Tortoise Media in a controversial deal telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

ChatGPT helped plan a school shooting, according to a new lawsuit from the mom of a girl critically wounded in the attack. Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother and 11-year-old half-brother, then went to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where she killed 5 students and a teacher’s aide, wounded two students, and shot herself. ChatGPT provided “information, guidance and assistance” to carry out such an attack, according to the suit. The lawsuit also says “approximately 12 employees” of OpenAI spoke up before the shooting and recommended that police be called. It says the concerns were “escalated to leadership” but “rebuffed.” ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti…

The size of the @nytimes newsroom: Publisher AG Sulzberger says it’s now 2300 journalists, doubled from 10 years ago.

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3 weeks ago: WaPo dismantles its international desk 5 days ago: Iran war breaks out Today: NYTs swoops in to pick up WaPo's ex Iran correspondent nytco.com/press/our-new-…

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Look at these numbers. AI summaries are fuelling a news holocaust.

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Animal rescue work is truly praiseworthy. Unless it's AI. Always question before you share. Go to thepsai.com to learn more. #ThePSAi

Scientists from five European countries have established: my husband, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with epibatidine — a neurotoxin, one of the deadliest poisons on earth. In nature, this poison can be found on the skin of the Ecuadorian dart frog. It causes paralysis, respiratory arrest, and a painful death. I was certain from the first day that my husband had been poisoned, but now there is proof: Putin killed Alexei with chemical weapon. I am grateful to the European states for the meticulous work they carried out over two years and for uncovering the truth. Vladimir Putin is a murderer. He must be held accountable for all his crimes.

It's so funny to look at these figures. Huang would have to pay a one-time $7 billion sum on $155 billion fortune. "Who cares" is absolutely the appropriate reaction. It means nothing to him. David Sacks types look like the biggest babies in the world.

@amybetic The best possible thing you can do for your baby is to be as healthy and happy yourself as possible. You have done so well to get this far, and they will be totally fine if you need to switch to formula or mix feeding. I wish someone had told me that when I was in your position!

And I really don’t know if I have it in me to go beyond 6 months, though I really, really want(ed) to 😔 But I am so tired, in every sense 😅 #gbdoc

My original breastfeeding goal was to make it to at least 6 months, then I wanted to make it to 1 year, especially to ‘offset’ me having a c-section I’m at just over 4 months now, we had a really hard start & first 2 months

Two little scoops in @jamesrbuk's piece for Transformer today on whistleblowing in AI: — An AI company sent a cease and desist letter to the @AIWI_Official for running an ad campaign informing its employees about their whistleblowing rights. — Anthropic is set to publish its whistleblowing policy imminently.