The Associated Press (AP) has upgraded its artificial intelligence guidelines, Digwatch reports. AP Journalists may use AI for early-stage research, translation, document summaries, transcription and for help with grammar, spelling, search optimization, headlines and story summaries. However, AP maintains that AI cannot replace original reporting, source verification, fact-checking or editorial judgement. And all AI outputs must be reviewed by a journalist. 

More than 500 public media staffers have been laid off since Congress stripped public radio and television stations of most of their federal funding, according to a tally by SemiPublic, NPR reports. And public stations have started scrambling. South Dakota Public Broadcasting cancelled the weekly public affairs show, In The Moment, and laid off the host, Lori Walsh. But she was hired back to do a daily podcast after the station raised $8 million through "white-hot rage-giving." At an event this summer, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said, "All of this exists because of viewers like you. We have said this on the air for …

SuiteDSP has launched a capability that it says can help advertisers evaluate programmatic impressions before placing a bid, ExchangeWire reports. The new tool, AI Decisioning, analyzes live auction signals: supply quality, contextual relevance, audience behavior, historical performance and predicted engagement. 

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has urged financial institutions to spurn early access being offered for up to $100,000 a month to posts on President Trump’s Truth Social platform, Reuters reports. And Wall Street banks appear to be wary in their own right. A source within a large bank said the bank would not consider acquiring the API, and it would review the political risk first if it did. And a source at another large bank said that bank was not considering subscribing. 

Justice Department lawyers withdrew the subpoenas it issued against New York Times journalists after a grilling by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, the Times reports. The reporters had written about the security gaps in the Air Force One jet donated by Qatar. Subramanian, honing on whether the government had followed the law, said subpoenas to reporters “are not the first thing you do — they are the last thing you do.”

Television companies are allowing too many disconnected sources to sell ads at once, resulting in high frequency, Mike Shields writes on Substack. Brands and agencies operate in silos without thinking about the consumer, and this disconnect is at the core of the CTV ad problem, claims Doug Rozen, president of Cadent. Yet they think they are doing a stellar job. 

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing $5 million to launch digital newsrooms in 15 U.S. communities in three states, in a partnership with Village Media, Wisconsin News Media Association reports. Village Media -- which operates digital-only local news networks that serve 27 communities and 4 million unique visitors -- will develop and run the new markets.  . 

News Corp. has filed a countersuit against Brave, a search engine, alleging that it  distributed versions of articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post to A ogy I firms in acts of “flagrant theft,” Reuters reports.  Brave had sued News Corp. in 2025, asking a federal court to rule that its actions are legal. But News Corp. rejects that view. "The more content Brave copies and sells, the more revenue it generates, and the less incentive AI companies have to negotiate licenses with the publishers who produced the content," the complaint argues. "Brave profits while publishers are cut out."

Comscore says its Proximic by Comscore platform has been integrated with Acast, Libsyn, SiriusXM, Spotify, and Triton Digital in a move to provide transcript-level targeting to programmatic podcast advertisers, Inside Radio reports. The arrangement allows advertisers to buy podcast and streaming audio inventory based on the individual episodes instead of broad-audience demographics and show-level genres. “Brands recognize that podcasts are having a cultural moment," says Jessica Trainor, head of partnerships at Proximic. “By delivering transcript-level intelligence based on what is actually being said during an episode, Proximic is helping advertisers invest with confidence and reach listeners in the moments and environments that matter."

A Florida teenager has withdrawn a social media addiction lawsuit against Meta a week before it was to go to trial, The New York Times reports. The 15-year-old youth, identified only by his initials, R.K.C., dropped the suit because he was satisfied with unspecified settlements and did not want to endure a trial. Meta countered: “The claims never held up, and this outcome makes clear that we will not back away from defending ourselves against baseless lawsuits.”