“Make sure your final work is yours”: Internal guidelines at Business Insider allow journalists to use AI to assist with writing first drafts without public disclosure–which looks like a sensible and practical solution. (Oliver Darcy, Status)

“If we only label ‘AI’, we obscure the view of the journalistic process. (…) But we stand by our journalism – whether AI was involved or not! We should convince users of that.” AI transparency in journalism: labels for a hybrid era (Katharina Schell, Reuters Institute)

Don’t count on counting fingers: Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content (Henk van Ess, Global Investigative Journalism Network)

Süddeutsche Zeitung’s design team spent considerable effort creating a style guide for marking AI content—complete with sparkle icons and purple gradients. (Medium)

Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright launches Inception Point AI, flooding the zone with 5,000 AI-generated podcasts at $1 per episode. Her take: calling AI content “slop” makes you a “lazy luddite.” Sure. When your business model requires only 50 listeners per episode to turn a profit, maybe the bar isn’t exactly set at Pulitzer Prize level. (Caitlin Huston, Hollywood Reporter)

“A year ago, custom GPTs were the thing. Fast forward to today… and it almost feels vintage. But here’s the truth: many of us use custom AI agents in the newsroom, they are real and USEFUL.” (Alba Mora Roca, LinkedIn)

I Hate My Friend: The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. (Kylie Robison, Wired)

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart: Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent. (Varsha Bansal, The Guardian)

How to get less hallucinations: “What often is deemed a ‘wrong’ response is often merely a first pass at describing the beliefs out there. And the solution is the same: iterate the process.” (Mike Caulfield, The End(s) of Argument)

AI bots endlessly scrape publisher sites, causing costly downtime and meager traffic. (Charlotte Tobitt, PressGazette)

AI Search, Users, and News: A trove of data from LM Arena offers a glimpse into user search behavior. A few sources garnered the majority of impressions. (Nick Diakopoulos, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image: “Grok’s rightward shift has occurred alongside Mr. Musk’s own frustrations with the chatbot’s replies. He wrote in July that ‘all AIs are trained on a mountain of woke’ information that is very difficult to remove after training.” (New York Times)

What happens to carefully crafted journalism when readers expect AI-generated, personalized stories created instantly? Semafor’s Gina Chua on how AI will upend the news.

Werewolf leaderboard: GPT-5 is the best at bluffing and manipulating the other AIs in Werewolf. (Foaster Labs)

From Star Wars insult to TikTok meme: “Clanker has become a go-to slur against A.I. on social media, led by Gen Z and Gen Alpha posters.” (Eli Tan, New York Times)