I'm so honored to be a Livingston finalist for my reporting on how human smuggling networks recruit vulnerable US citizens to transport migrants on the last leg of their journeys. I'm grateful to Bloomberg Businessweek for their support of ambitious work like this!
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It's Livingston Awards for Young Journalists finalists day! Love seeing so many deserving journalists get recognized, like Brenna T. Smith Astead Matt Drange Ava Kofman Brianna Sacks & more

And HUGE & SPECIAL congrats to Julia Love, who I feel so lucky to work with everyday!!

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Google fired 28 workers who protested Project Nimbus, a contract with the Israeli government.

We likely haven't seen the last of this story - organizers say their support among employees has increased since the protest.
Story w/ Davey Alba
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News: After being placed on a brief leave, 28 Googlers have been fired for being involved in Project Nimbus protests. Google says the employees physically impeded other employees' work; the workers dispute this, saying some of them only rallied outside

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really incredible work from new(ish) coworker Krishna Karra showing how airstrikes and refugees reshaped Rafah.

more than 1 million displaced Palestinians have packed the area in the south of Gaza with tents — here's what that actually looks like

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🚨Scoop from me and Brody Ford: Adobe has touted Firefly as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images.

Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is trying to show generative AI is ready for enterprise, despite recent embarrassments in the consumer market. Ahead of #GoogleCloudNext in Vegas today, he gave me & Davey Alba an exclusive rundown of how he plans to do it: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

so is it like... safe to get on the subway

YouTube, noted copyright defender.

Great get from Emily Chang and Davey Alba

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan tells me exclusively — if OpenAI is using YouTube videos to train Sora, that would be a “clear violation” of their policies (with Davey Alba)

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folks >>>>

Bloomberg Graphics is hiring for a graphics developer (for NYC, London or Hong Kong)

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📢NEW FROM ME!

On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state 'outside the scope of this paper' leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

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