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Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.

Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October — a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts.

As the Ukraine war grinds on, the Kremlin has created increasingly complex fabrications online to discredit Ukraine’s leader and undercut aid. Some have a Hollywood-style plot twist.

The former CNN frontman released a wide-ranging interview with the billionaire about business, politics, hate speech online and more.

Days before the former television anchor’s new talk show debuted, his deal combusted after an interview with the site’s owner, he said.

Raw Story, AlterNet and The Intercept sued for copyright infringement over the way the ChatGPT creator trains its technology.

The artificial intelligence start-up argued that its online chatbot, ChatGPT, is not a substitute for a New York Times subscription.

In this year’s presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the platform tries de-emphasizing “political content.”

New satellites that orbit the Earth at very low altitudes may result in a world where nothing is really off limits.

Mr. Carlson has been receiving blanket news coverage from state-run media outlets in Russia since stepping foot in Moscow.

Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — are still losing money.

The artificial intelligence start-up said that it collaborated with news organizations and that The Times, which accused it of copyright infringement, was not telling the full story.

The use of content from news and information providers to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines.

Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative A.I. systems on publishers’ news articles.