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A memo from Business Insider EIC Jamie Heller outlines the outlet's AI rules, permitting staffers to use ChatGPT for research and writing first drafts (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/business-insider-ai-policy-chatgpt

Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

Arguably, this guy got on the cover of the very best Pink Floyd album.
(although sometimes I think it's Animals. And sometimes The Dark Side of the Moon. And often I just can't choose one amongst those three)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05e0z9lj3mo

Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.

Lost in Data: How Older Adults Perceive and Navigate Health Data Representations
Peterson Jean, Emma Murphy, Enda Bates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11876 https://

Lost in Data: How Older Adults Perceive and Navigate Health Data Representations
As the ageing population grows, older adults increasingly rely on wearable devices to monitor chronic conditions. However, conventional health data representations (HDRs) often present accessibility challenges, particularly for critical health parameters like blood pressure and sleep data. This study explores how older adults interact with these representations, identifying key barriers such as semantic inconsistency and difficulties in understanding. While research has primarily focused on dat…

Competition Erases Simplicity: Tight Regret Bounds for Uniform Pricing with Multiple Buyers
Houshuang Chen, Yaonan Jin, Pinyan Lu, Chihao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12733

Competition Erases Simplicity: Tight Regret Bounds for Uniform Pricing with Multiple Buyers
We study repeated \textsf{Uniform Pricing} mechanisms with multiple buyers. In each round, the platform sets a uniform price for all buyers; a transaction occurs if at least one buyer bids at or above this price. Prior work demonstrates that structural assumptions on bid distributions -- such as regularity or monotone hazard rate (MHR) property -- enable significant improvements in pricing query complexity (from $Θ\left(\varepsilon^{-3}\right)$ to $\widetildeΘ\left(\varepsilon^{-2}\right)$\fo…

2025 NFL Futures bets, predictions, player props: Quarterback prop picks for Mahomes, Burrow, Murray

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

Are you ready for some #baseball!
Tonight is the Gwinnett Stripers vs the Louisville Bats. Tonight is Pink in the Park.
Hot dog acquired.
#milb
#GWNvsLOU

TollBit: human-originated page requests on approximately 400 publisher websites fell 9.4% from April to June 2025, while AI bot visits grew to one in 50 visits (David Buttle/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/human-traffic-down-b…

AI bots appear to be replacing human traffic on publisher websites
Human traffic to publisher websites is now in decline as bot traffic rises, according to data from AI licensing start-up, Tollbit.

2025 NFL Futures bets, predictions, player props: Wide Receiver prop bet picks for London, Worthy, Nabers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

Super Bowl 60 picks, futures bets, predictions, sleepers: Top rated NFL expert says back Lions at 10-1 in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-b