CBS News Friday July 25, 2025
President Trump said Tuesday he has struck a "massive" trade deal with Japan that calls for 15% tariffs on goods the U.S. imports from there. The president wrote on his Truth Social platform Tuesday that, as part of the agreement, Japan will invest $550 billion in the U.S. "which will receive 90% of the Profits,” notes CBS News. For photography companies themselves, this will enable them to operate in the United States with greater stability, adds PetaPixel, though It remains to be seen how quickly Japanese companies will react to the new tariffs through price adjustments.
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Columbia Journalism Review Friday July 25, 2025
A growing movement of African filmmakers is reclaiming wildlife storytelling, replacing outside perspectives with homegrown ones, notes The Columbia Journalism, Review. “Western films often portray animals as heroes and locals as villains,” says Fiona Tande, the founder of the Pridelands Wildlife Film Festival, the first African-led nature-film festival. This framing ignores a deeper truth, she adds: Africans have lived alongside wildlife for generations, guided by traditions that treated nature as sacred.
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David Schonauer Friday July 25, 2025
President Donald Trump has made AI news again, this time by reposting a fake video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office. The proliferation of false imagery from
Trump comes as administration officials accuse Obama of trying to harm Trump's campaign during the 2016 election, and as the president seeks to redirect conversation from the controversy over sex
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MIT News Thursday July 24, 2025
A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant—a program from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NOAA promoting sustainable development of marine resources—brings together artificial intelligence and underwater photography to document the ocean life made vulnerable by rapid environmental change. The initiative, called LOBSTgER (short for Learning Oceanic Bioecological Systems Through Generative Representations) aims to bring distant or hidden environments into view by crafting images with “artistic intent” and “technical precision.”
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