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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News The Information ·Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory
News Ars Technica - All content ·The Battle Over Open-Source AI Will Be Settled in Trump’s Presidency
News The Information ·News organisations are forced to accept Google AI crawlers, says FT policy chief
News Press Gazette ·‘Millions’ of NYT and NY Daily News stories taken by OpenAI for training data
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News TechCrunch ·Meta Permits Its AI Models to be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
News The Information ·The Generative AI Spending of 50 Companies, From Coke to Walmart
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News 404 Media ·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