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    The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom

    The New York Times has reportedly approved artificial intelligence tools that newsroom staff can use for editing copy, summarizing information, coding, and writing. The publication announced in an internal email that product and editorial staff will receive AI training, according to Semafor, and introduced a new internal AI tool called Echo for summarizing articles, briefings, and other company activity. Staff…

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    Ransomware attack disrupts New York blood donation giant

    ​The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the world’s largest independent blood collection and distribution organizations, says a Sunday ransomware attack forced it to reschedule some appointments. NYBC collects almost 4,000 units of blood products every day and serves more than 75 million people in more than a dozen states. It also provides transfusion-related medical services to over 500…

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    New York clinic notifies 357K people of data breach that compromised SSNs and medical records

    New York clinic Excelsior Orthopaedics this week confirmed it notified 357,000 people about a June 2024 data breach that compromised the following employee and patient info: Names Social Security numbers Biometric info Medical record number Diagnoses and diagnosis codes Treatment locations Procedure types Provider names Treatment costs Medical dates of service Patient account numbers and subscriber member numbers Health insurance…

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    News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post

    News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.” Perplexity is an AI startup that trains its AI search models…

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    The New York Times will now charge for past episodes of its popular podcasts

    The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, Hard Fork, and Modern Love are some of The New York Times’ most popular podcasts — and next month, only the most recent two or three episodes of each will be free of charge. The Times announced today that it’ll now offer a podcast subscription service through Spotify and Apple for $6 a month…

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