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Opinion: AI’s ‘strip mining’ of news articles must be stopped

Artificial intelligence companies are flagrantly scraping and summarizing content directly from published news articles via retrieval-augmented generation. News media is by far the most frequently cited source of current information for large language models (LLMs), which are using news content without authorization or fair compensation. AI overviews combine many sources of unlicensed content to provide an effective substitute to the original source. With the user staying within Big Tech’s increasingly taller walled garden, rather than being pointed electronically to news websites via links, publishers are deprived of audience and their ability to sell advertising and subscriptions is significantly diminished. No clicks mean no cash for news businesses. Yet, AI companies are selling ads against copyrighted (and often paywalled) content as well as subscriptions for their premium products. Read More
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Inside the energy arms race no one’s talking about | NYNext

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth sits down with Lydia Moynihan to sound off on sky-high energy demand, government red tape, and the global race for energy dominance. Wirth slams the Biden administration’s hostility toward natural gas and warns that America is losing its competitive edge to China thanks to stifling permitting laws. He champions nuclear energy,...

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Adelaide v Collingwood: 2025 AFL first qualifying final – live

Adelaide’s Reilly O’Brien and Collingwood’s Darcy Cameron stand opposite each other before both leap high toward a perfectly bounced ball as the 2025 AFL final series gets under way at Adelaide Oval.

Both sides line up for the Welcome to Country and national anthem with no sign of Adelaide’s infamous power stance. Feels like a missed opportunity to double down, a mere eight years later.

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© Photograph: Sarah Reed/AFL Photos/Getty Images

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Reeves has ‘full confidence’ in Rayner, and thinks deputy PM can keep her job – UK politics live

Chancellor offers unequivocal backing to colleague following stamp duty error

Graffiti calling Angela Rayner a “tax evader” has appeared at her Hove flat, PA Media reports. PA says:

The word “bitch” along with a much larger sign saying “tax evader!” have been pictured on a white wall on the outside of the property.

Across the road, “Tax evader Rayner” and “Rayner tax avoidance” have been graffitied on construction chipboard.

The council is taking legal action against Somani Hotels over the use of the Essex hotel as accommodation for asylum seekers and had a temporary injunction granted by the high court last month overturned by the court of appeal on Friday.

A full trial of the claim is scheduled for October, after which an injunction could be issued, but barristers for the Home Office asked the court today to push the case back by six weeks to allow the council and Somani Hotels to “reflect on the legal position now established by the court of appeal”.

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© Photograph: Cameron Smith/PA

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Donald Trump is having a lovechild with Satan: South Park sets up future chaos

At times, the latest episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s comedy feels like it’s running out of ammo when tackling the US President. But might it just be sowing the seeds of what’s to come?

So far, South Park’s 27th season has had one clear goal: to provoke Donald Trump into a tantrum. Every episode has managed to pick on a new and different facet of his authoritarian rule – the silencing of his media critics, his use of Ice agents as an intimidation tactic – while simultaneously telling everyone what a tiny penis he has.

So the anticipation levels were off the charts for this week’s episode, entitled Wok Is Dead, which promised to take on Trump’s tariff policy. And in fairness it did do this, but only in a couple of scenes where a Chinese character with an uncomfortably Mickey Rooney-esque accent complained about them. The rest of the episode just settled for a bunch of jokes about Labubu dolls, as well as calling Donald Trump “Satan” as many times as it feasibly could.

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Russia Wants ‘Security Guarantees’ Too. Here’s What They Look Like.

The Kremlin’s vision of national security comes at the expense of Ukrainian sovereignty, underlining the challenges of striking a peace deal.

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A soldier with Ukraine’s 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region, in May. Russia wants limits on the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian military.
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England’s road runoff pollution problem being ignored, MPs told

Pollution entering waterways from 25,000 road outflows is not monitored or regulated by Environment Agency, committee hears

Toxic, carcinogenic pollution that pours from 25,000 road outflows into rivers in England is being ignored by politicians and regulators, MPs have been told.

Road runoff containing toxic particles from tyres and brakes, and pollution from fuel and oil spills – which washes into rivers after rainfall – can devastate aquatic life and, by increasing toxicity, reduce the overall health of waterways. It is responsible for 18% of the reason all rivers fail to meet good ecological and chemical standards.

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