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
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Democrats are now more worried than Republicans about AI and its impact on jobs
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News The Verge ·The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry
News TechCrunch ·Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
News The Verge ·Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
News TechCrunch ·Texas could penalize data centers for not reporting water use
News The Texas Tribune ·‘The industry lied’
News edition.cnn.com ·Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored – podcast
News commentary Digital media | The Guardian ·They’re covering the wrong AI story
News commentary BuzzMachine ·The ‘End Times Fascists’ of AI
News Blood in the Machine ·What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
News TechCrunch ·Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
News The Verge ·Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
News TechCrunch ·Virginia Eyes AI Chatbot Rules as Observable Risks Warrant Action
News techpolicy.press ·A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
News commentary terrytao.wordpress.com ·Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did
News commentary thebulletin.org ·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