At #CSCW2026 I’m presenting a poster on News Compass, which pairs research with its news and social media coverage, so journalists can see what’s been covered, missed, or distorted. We're also (slowly) rolling it out as a free tool for journalists, with support from @knightlab.northwestern.edu!

Overdue: the 6 of us, the inaugural AAAS AI cohort who joined Congress in 2023 on an urgent basis after ChatGPT's release - wrote a shared reflection on our 1-2 years on the Hill. cacm.acm.org/opinion/work...

Holy hell. Anthropic's AI model submitted a false tip about a HOMICIDE to the Philadelphia Police Department's online public tip form. The release today from the PPD:

Are you a journalist interested in covering AI? Check out the Tarbell fellowship, applications due Nov 22: www.tarbellcenter.org/fellowship

New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.

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Do you study science or engineering and want to write it about it for the masses? I can't recommend the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship enough! Check it out here and apply: massmedia.secure-platform.com/a/page/About

And here we goooo... nonprofit legal advocacy organization is suing OpenAI over the HuggingFace hack on the grounds that it violated California state law arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.

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Given how much money the likes of Anthropic loses, I'm not sure we're ready for the level of enshittification that we'll endure after they (and OpenAI) go public. The subsidy doesn't last forever.

This is a really helpful primer on some of the beliefs at play in SV www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?

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Whatever happened to AI redteaming? This was all the rage for a hot minute and now we don’t hear about it at all.

We're now at the stage of the Anthropic settlement where we see just how grabby the publishers of our books are. Wow! Taylor and Francis things they get 50% of the settlement money; Pearson 79% (how did they get to that number?).

Has anyone written about how all of the major tech companies have profoundly undifferentiated gen ai products? They all do more or less exactly the same things now.

Today I updated my post on building awareness through public AI registers to include some new research comparing the types of information typically included: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/building-a...

Building AI Awareness through Public Registers

The US Federal Government Inventory Still Needs an Accessible Interface

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This is the first account that I've seen where the developers pull back the curtain of how (and how well) chatbots for news actually work: generative-ai-newsroom.com/what-we-lear...

What if AI agents could find vulnerabilities in our legal systems? Legal Zero-Days are legal loopholes that AI agents might exploit to facilitate harmful action. Recent research conceptualizes and benchmarks frontier capabilities for finding them: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/legal-zero...

Legal Zero-Days as a Novel Security Risk for AI Agents

What if AI Agents Could Hack the Legal Forums Meant to Restrain Them?

ai-accountability-review.com

🎺 Announcing the Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge Winners! A few months ago we challenged journalists and computing/info/data scientists to develop agent skills for Claude that could be used to advance investigative journalism.

The Computation + Journalism Symposium is soliciting proposals to host the event in 2027. See here for details and LMK if you have questions! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hosting C+J 2027 - Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals to Host Computation + Journalism (C+J) Symposium 2027 Since 2008 the Computation + Journalism (C+J) Symposium has brought together a unique interdisciplinary community of journalis...

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Thomson Reuters trained / fine-tuned their own model: www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-rel...

Thomson Reuters Leverages its World-Class Data Assets to Launch Its Own Frontier Model

Thomson, the company's proprietary LLM, was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models and remains fully owned and controlled by Thomson Reuters

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“signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released” www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?

In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.

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“Calling such behaviour ‘rogue’ seems misguided” www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Agentic AI and cybersecurity, the story so far - Nature Machine Intelligence

Frontier large language models (LLMs) have rapidly developed from helpful coding assistants to highly capable cybersecurity systems. After several security incidents in the past few months, more overs...

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Journalism Job Alert: there are three jobs open on the NYT tech team in San Francisco. We are hiring for reporters to cover Anthropic, xAI, and a general AI business reporter. Message me if these interest you and you want to apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

Business Correspondent, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

San Francisco, CA

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In my post on AI registers for the AI Accountability Review: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/building-a... I realized that the federal US inventory doesn't have an accessible interface. Nothing Claude couldn't help with. Check it out here: comp-journalism.github.io/federal-ai-d...

Building Awareness through Public AI Registers

The US Federal Government Inventory Still Needs an Accessible Interface

ai-accountability-review.com

We were warned that AI would turn everything into paperclips. But the paperclips turned out to be data centers.

C+J is again bringing together journalists and academics this fall for 2 days of talks, demos, workshops, and more! This is *the* place to stay up to date on computation and journalism. Oct 2-3 at Northwestern. Program and registration now live at www.cj2026.northwestern.edu/schedule/

This is a great overview of issues and approaches for proving you’re not a dog (or a bot) online: www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa...

We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMA

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.

noemamag.com

For a company building superintelligence Anthropic's customer service agent is absolute garbage.

Interesting overview of AI reasoning: www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

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DON'T MISS THIS ONE! The program for Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J 2026) is live: www.cj2026.northwestern.edu/schedule/ You can register here (early registration is just $75!): www.cj2026.northwestern.edu/registration/ Chairs are @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social and @jeremygilbert.bsky.social

Nice write up of some of the AI-oriented changes to the SPJ code of ethics by @andrewdeck.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-...

The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age

On Monday, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) dropped new proposed revisions to its code of ethics — the first revision to one of the most-cited media ethics standards in the country since ...

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“A.I. is a genuinely powerful technology that still needs people, and putting it to use is slow, human work. The sooner we are honest about that …, the sooner we can stop performing A.I. and start building something with it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.

The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.

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