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Artificial intelligence

State of Play:

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 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

The Journalist’s Resource: AI in the newsroom: What researchers learned from the AP and the BBC

Congressional Research Service: Generative artificial intelligence: overview, issues, and considerations for Congress

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

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