Artificial intelligence
On top of a failing business model, newsrooms must navigate the powerful — and not fully reliable — new capabilities of artificial intelligence and the deployment of large language models.
State of the business model | Copyright and intellectual property
The Latest
India floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’
News www.theregister.com - Articles ·OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
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News washingtonpost.com ·Independent media grapple with how — and if — to apply AI
News J-Source ·Data Centers and Electricity Prices: It’s Not as Simple as Voters May Think
News FactCheck.org ·On Facebook and Instagram, Political Ads Are Increasingly Critical of Data Centers
News Pew Research Center ·Who Wins, Who Sues, Who Pays the Price
News Columbia Journalism Review ·AI has come for Arizona’s water
News The Verge ·The New York Times is adding more AI features to its Cooking app, and users aren’t thrilled
News Nieman Lab ·Meta pledges to consult publishers before finalizing its new terms
News Nieman Lab ·Norwegian media companies take Meta to court over AI scraping terms
News pressgazette.co.uk ·Meet the AI Agents Trying to Be Real-Life Journalists
News wired.com ·What to Do About the Coming Glut of AI Data Centers
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
News TechCrunch ·‘No human at the helm’: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
News Ars Technica - All content ·‘A gross abuse of Meta’s power’: California Senator Adam Schiff tells Meta to scrap its new terms of service
News Nieman Lab ·AI Agents Are Media’s New Favorite Audience
News Wired ·AI-driven disinformation running rampant on social media before US midterms, experts warn
News Digital media | The Guardian ·Data center backlash is uniting America
News The Verge ·in brief
The web hurt the news business. Will AI hurt it more?
Who owns the future?
Some 30 years after the arrival of the first modern web browser — an initial, small crack in the economic foundation of the news business — the widespread availability of artificial intelligence services make urgent the question once again. The press of a different future, the question of ownership, is being felt keenly in any information business: data, news, entertainment, art. AI will create wealth, people are betting, but how will that wealth be distributed?
July 9, 2025
resources
The Journalist’s Resource: AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and copyright law
Congressional Research Service: The macroeconomic effects of artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Section 230 immunity and generative artificial intelligence
Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence and data privacy: a primer
Congressional Research Service: How generative artificial intelligence is changing work