“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you’ve succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone…What people are saying: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!”

>math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math >"Navier-Stokes" >his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions >openai had his logs in codex >suddenly rumor leaks AI solved it >he emails openai to ask what's going on >openai calls within days >"funny story, our model also solved it" >using his exact approach >asks openai: did you train on my sessions? >no answer

Press Gazette has raised questions about four more prolific finance journalists who have so far been unable to verify their identities and have written for a number of well-known journalism brands such as Forbes and The Next Web pressgazette.co.uk/news/tech…

There's something funny about these four journalists...

Four more freelance crypto journalists, with bylines at Forbes, Entrepreneur, Information Age, and TNW, have not verified their IDs after a reporter's queries (@robwaugh74 / Press Gazette) (Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)

There's something very strange about Sadie Ann Williamson... More fake journalists unearthed for @pressgazette!

New: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book 404media.co/we-tracked-a-shi…

Fake Forbes websites and the PR agency offering guaranteed coverage – at a price Fake iterations of the Forbes website are packed with AI-generated and promotional content

PR agency Baden Bower appears to be behind two fake and largely AI-generated websites purporting to be published by Forbes and filled with promotional content (@robwaugh74 / Press Gazette) (Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)

Two new Forbes websites - Forbes LA and Forbes Liechtenstein - have profiled hundreds of global businesses, and made millions. But there's just one, tiny problem... pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake…

i hope to god that this doesn’t turn out to the the most prescient cartoon of the century. but odds are that it will be. credit: @TTomTToro

US copyright law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world Google is removing thousands of articles from search due to spurious DMCA requests

Three reputable football websites have been taken over by parasite SEO firm Clickout Media. Now AI-reporters are churning out error-strewn copy to help promote gambling websites pressgazette.co.uk/news/ai-r…

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

Four prolific finance journalists have landed 1,000 pieces in top titles from Forbes to the Times of Israel - but there's one tiny problem: it seems very likely that none of them actually exist... pressgazette.co.uk/news/prol…

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. nytimes.com/2026/04/08/busin…

A look at Clickout, which has bought hundreds of websites to harvest their reputations and pack them with casino links; in 2024, it had £40M in revenue (@robwaugh74 / Press Gazette) pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-… mediagazer.com/260327/p10#a2…

Voice messages should die. I hate everyone who sends them. When someone sends me a voice note, I don't look at it for days. It's the most selfish form of communication. You're offloading your typing time onto my listening time. You get convenience and I get locked into your pace. Can neither skim thru nor reference them later.

I'm a die-hard gamer (still a helpless slave to Diablo IV even in my advancing years) so it's tragic to see sites with so much heritage turned into AI slop fountains

How many fake experts have slimed their way into the British media? Press Gazette's latest finds that one in ten expert-led articles includes out-and-out fake experts - including 'Jessie' on the right here, whose creators spilled the beans on WHY they made her with AI pressgazette.co.uk/news/face…