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
Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom
News The Register ·It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads
News Ars Technica ·To use AI, apply business thinking
News RJI ·Playing with AI: Can Otter and ChatGPT produce a good-enough account of a podcast interview?
News commentary Media Nation ·A renewed appetite for print
News Nieman Lab ·AI turns news into a conversation
News Nieman Lab ·I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies
News commentary 404 Media ·Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis
News The Register ·Google Announces Second Generation of Gemini AI Models
News The Information ·AI Firms Hunt For CMOs
News The Information ·Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom
News The Information ·AI-fueled pink slime and harnessing tools with potential
News American Press Institute ·Washington Post Ingeniously Leverages ‘AI’ To Undermine History And Make Search Less Useful
News commentary Techdirt ·AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”
News Ars Technica - All content ·HarperCollins CEO touts Spotify’s audiobooks entry, AI’s impact on publishing
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·Put AI at the beginning, not at the end
News Nieman Lab ·AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism
News Hacker News ·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