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Will Oremus

@willoremus
877 posts
2026-02-16
David Greene was the voice of NPR's “Morning Edition.” Is he also secretly the voice of Google's AI podcast tool, NotebookLM? Google says no. Greene doesn't believe them. Now he's suing. My story today: [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Washington Post

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor

NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.

2026-01-27
New: Unsealed court docs detail Big Tech's yearslong, secret race to ingest the collective works of humanity, including Anthropic's project to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” [image]
2026-01-27 View on X
Washington Post

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.

Our story today on Anthropic's “Project Panama” — which was an effort to find a more legal/ethical approach to vacuuming up the world's books than the previous industry standard, which was simply to torrent them from online pirates. Gift link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2026-01-27 View on X
Washington Post

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.

2025-10-26
An ousted Wikipedia cofounder who says the site has a liberal bias is helping to fuel a conservative push to reform or supplant it. My story today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-10-26 View on X
Washington Post

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it

Larry Sanger's long-standing claims of liberal bias and mismanagement at the world's dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.

2025-10-25
An ousted Wikipedia cofounder who says the site has a liberal bias is helping to fuel a conservative push to reform or supplant it. My story today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it

Larry Sanger's long-standing claims of liberal bias and mismanagement at the world's dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.

2025-10-17
Microsoft should come up with some kind of cute avatar to represent the AI and make it seem more user-friendly. Something simple and relatable; maybe an everyday object of some sort... ?
2025-10-17 View on X
CNBC

Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs

On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.

Microsoft should come up with some kind of cute avatar to represent the AI and make it seem more user-friendly. Something simple and relatable; maybe an everyday object of some sort... ?
2025-10-17 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user

where AI is built into the tools people already use every day. With today's updates, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC, with Copilot at the center, ready to help you think, crea...

2025-09-26
If you're a company that gained an early lead in chatbots but now faces a lot of competitors that do basically the same thing, gathering rich data on users' interests to serve them personalized content seems like a strategic way to try to lock people in
2025-09-26 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a mobile feature for Pro users that delivers daily personalized updates based on their chats, feedback, and connected apps

ChatGPT's new Pulse feature does personalized research on your behalf overnight and serves you up a digest each morning.

2025-09-20
“To explore what content OpenAI may have used, The Washington Post used Sora to create hundreds of videos that show it can closely mimic movies, TV shows and other content.” https://t.co/...
2025-09-20 View on X
Washington Post

Tests show OpenAI's Sora can closely mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos, and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of such content

Tests by The Post suggest the training data for OpenAI's video generators Sora included versions of movies, TikTok clips and Netflix shows.

OpenAI's Sora video tool is able to produce videos that closely mimic content from TikTok, Netflix, EA Sports, 20th Century Fox and others, right down to the company logos in some cases. Story by @kevinschaul & @nitashatiku: https://t.co/...
2025-09-20 View on X
Washington Post

Tests show OpenAI's Sora can closely mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos, and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of such content

Tests by The Post suggest the training data for OpenAI's video generators Sora included versions of movies, TikTok clips and Netflix shows.

2025-09-07
Breaking: In landmark agreement, AI firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors and publishers. Story link to follow.
2025-09-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books

Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …

2025-09-06
Breaking: In landmark agreement, AI firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors and publishers. Story link to follow.
2025-09-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books

Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …

2025-07-23
Trump's “AI Action Plan” just dropped, along with a splashy new website, AI dot gov [image]
2025-07-23 View on X
Bloomberg

The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects

The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …

2025-07-01
In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. The landslide came after Sen. @MarshaBlackburn abandoned a deal with @tedcruz to support a pared-back, 5-year pause. [image]
2025-07-01 View on X
Bloomberg

The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program

The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …

2025-05-23
The big bill the House passed today *does* include the 10-year ban on state AI regulation. And it can pass the Senate without Democrats' help. But there is one group that could still stop it: Senate Republicans. My newsletter today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-05-23 View on X
Washington Post

State lawmakers and AGs from both parties, Democrats, consumer advocates, and others oppose GOP's push to ban state AI regulations for the next 10 years

This would mean no regulation of not just new stuff, but *anything AI is integrated into* — WHICH IS EVERYTHING: cars, social media, medical devices... anything w/ 1s + 0s.  —  No ...

2025-04-26
Ed Martin's latest target: Wikipedia.  The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is “spreading propaganda.”  Our story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-04-26 View on X
The Free Press

Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status

In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.

2025-01-08
As someone who has had my own Threads posts taken down by Meta's overzealous and opaque moderation systems, I can testify that Zuckerberg is right the company made too many mistakes.  No one likes having their post taken down unjustly. …
2025-01-08 View on X
Platformer

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past

Mark Zuckerberg cited a “cultural tipping point” to justify dumping fact-checks and relaxing hate speech rules.  I wrote about how, for Meta, these kinds of tipping points seem to come along every four years.  Gift link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-01-08 View on X
Washington Post

Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms handle content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe

As platform scales back moderation in line with conservative demands in the U.S., it still has to maneuver through stiffer regulations in Europe and elsewhere.

Meta ending fact-checks in the US made the headlines, but the real ballgame here is its broader repudiation of the idea that the company is responsible for “bad stuff” on its platforms, as Zuck puts it.  The company has never really wanted that responsibility, and Trump's election gives them fresh license to shrug it off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-01-08 View on X
Platformer

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past

Meta ending fact-checks in the US made the headlines, but the real ballgame here is its broader repudiation of the idea that the company is responsible for “bad stuff” on its platforms, as Zuck puts it.  The company has never really wanted that responsibility, and Trump's election gives them fresh license to shrug it off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-01-08 View on X
Washington Post

Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms handle content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe

As platform scales back moderation in line with conservative demands in the U.S., it still has to maneuver through stiffer regulations in Europe and elsewhere.