Alice sends the outcome via a classical communication channel to Bob, who can then recover the original state by applying the corresponding local transformation.

This seems to be the key point - there is absolutely no FTL information transfer going on, which is pretty much what I expected. As I said before, it would've been much bigger news if there was. The press article was clearly written by someone who didn't understand what was going on (or was intentionally deceitful, but that seems unlikely).