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.
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OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos
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News The Register ·Why OpenAI is only letting some Sora users create videos of real people
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News Nieman Lab ·Newsrooms break new ground in AI
News Nieman Lab ·OpenAI Launches Video-Generating Sora Model
News The Information ·OpenAI’s Sora is launching today — here are highlights from the first review
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·Patrick Soon-Shiong’s “button” would be the ruin of the LA Times
News commentary Press Watch ·Adaptive partnerships in the AI data marketplace
News Nieman Lab ·Microsoft’s New Sales Pitch for AI: Spend Less Money on Humans
News The Information ·OpenAI’s Sora video generator might not be available in the EU at launch
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·Amazon Makes AI-Assisted Tool Available to Chinese Sellers
News The Information ·Microsoft dangles $10K for hackers to hijack LLM email service
News The Register ·We can't make this stuff up: tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures
News The Register ·China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats
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