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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‘We need to set the terms or we’re all screwed’: how newsrooms are tackling AI’s uncertainties and opportunities
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News Columbia Journalism Review ·There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)
News commentary Nieman Lab ·OpenAI upgrades its transcription and voice-generating AI models
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News The Information ·Brand safety woes continue and the coming storm on AI litigation
News Press Gazette ·Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average
News Ars Technica - All content ·A Podcaster Develops AI to Search His Own Episodes
News The Information ·xAI launches an API for generating images
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News Ars Technica - All content ·Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them
News The Register ·America crafts an AI action plan
News analysis Platformer ·Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition
News The Guardian ·Yup, AI robo-authors don't qualify for copyright, says appeals court
News The Register ·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