A federal judge has rejected the Associated Press' plea that President Trump immediately let its reporters resume covering major events at the White House, on Air Force One and elsewhere.

In denying the AP's request for a temporary restraining order, however, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden ordered an expedited consideration of its lawsuit. The AP is seeking to overturn the ban altogether; the judge set a court hearing for March 20, at which he will consider the motion.

McFadden, a Trump appointee, found that...

Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC.

The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.

It said the resulting answers contained "significant inaccuracies" and distortions.

This year's epic, relentless news cycles were driven by months of near-unprecedented political violence and uncertainty — plus the Olympics, according to Axios' annual analysis of Google Trends data.

Why it matters: Even in a wild election year, America's short attention span for news led to dramatic ups and downs in search trends as the media pivoted from one major story to the next.

The big picture: The Paris Games were the news event that saw the largest spike in interest compared to the others analyzed by Axios.

June 21 (Reuters) - Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, content licensing startup TollBit has told publishers.