U.S. Open Gave Creators A Pass. FIFA & TikTok Gave Them A Role. Wimbledon Passed

Amid the latest U.S. Open creator controversy, Wimbledon does not plan dedicated creator accreditation for 2027, unlike U.S. Open and FIFA-TikTok models.

Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm

Adam Mosseri has warned that users who switch off Instagram’s recommendation system end up with a worse experience, telling an Australian press briefing that engagement can fall by as much as 50% and that satisfaction scores fall off a cliff. Mosseri s…

LG denies the standby recording. It confirms the network scanning, and says every smart TV does it.
LG denies the standby recording. It confirms the network scanning, and says every smart TV does it.

A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local netwo…

OpenAI now supplies the image models inside Adobe’s creative studio. It is also turning prompts into things you pass around.
OpenAI now supplies the image models inside Adobe’s creative studio. It is also turning prompts into things you pass around.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features r…

The US asked Britain to drop its plan to promote trusted news
The US asked Britain to drop its plan to promote trusted news

The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation…

Trump Takes Aim At UK Media Proposals

The Trump administration has taken exception to the UK’s plans to increase the prominence of ‘trusted news sources’ on YouTube and other digital platforms.

Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports
Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports

Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publ…

Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.
Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.

Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European Commission the only regulator still arguing that a breakup is the fix. A year after its €2.95bn fine, the Commission is still assessing a c…

How AI And Peter Gabriel Changed Junie Lau’s Path To Directing

Filmmaker Junie Lau used generative AI to break into directing, win Peter Gabriel’s backing and turn childhood memories into Goldfish Mayhem.

A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.
A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.

YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats …