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“The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump — combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts — have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.”

The rights to the magazine were acquired by Gunzilla Games, a game studio co-founded by director Neill Blomkamp. “The entire team that was working together at Game Informer’s closure has returned, from editorial to production and beyond,” writes Game Informer EIC Matt Miller. “The entire team. Seriously – I’m still pinching myself.” The magazine will remain editorially independent.

“U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee said that the publishers’ request was too broad and that they failed to show Anthropic’s conduct caused them ‘irreparable harm.’ The publishers said in a statement that they ‘remain very confident in our case against Anthropic more broadly.’”

“The journalists were among 10 arrested in dawn raids on their homes earlier this week. An Istanbul court initially ruled the journalists should be released before reversing the decision and issuing an official arrest order, according to their lawyers and representatives…They were held after photographing mass anti-government demonstrations that have swept Turkey for the first time in years, prompted by the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu last week.” —ND

“Foglio AI is the brainchild of Claudio Cerasa, the editor of Italian center-right daily newspaper Il Foglio, who said he created it to explore the capabilities and limitations of AI — and as a kind of call to arms to journalists…At the end of its first week of publication, Cerasa asked ChatGPT to assess its own work. The resulting article states that ‘artificial intelligence can write well’ but that ‘writing well is not yet journalism.’”

“The international network is in court in Washington, D.C., seeking a permanent reversal of [Kari] Lake’s orders to kill all funding for it and to wind down all operations, despite a congressional appropriation of $142 million for the network in the current fiscal year…The network argued the agency’s effort to shut it down is unconstitutional. In his ruling on Tuesday, the judge presiding over the case suggested he found that argument compelling.”

“The platform, which will be known as SI Predict, joins a growing field of quasi-betting exchanges, including Polymarket and Kalshi, which offer products based on derivatives contracts. SI Predict will be available globally and feature bets on things such as football-game attendance or what song a halftime musician will perform, but not who will win a specific game…the Sports Illustrated brand is now owned by Authentic Brands Group Inc., which licenses it out for ventures including ticketing platform SI Tickets, hospitality operator SI Resorts and film, television and podcast producer SI Studios.” —LO