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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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
News TechCrunch ·Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
News www.theregister.com ·Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
News theverge.com ·A human wrote this – believe me
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News Nieman Lab ·Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI
News TechCrunch ·‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world
News The Guardian - Artificial intelligence ·Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
News TechCrunch ·Everybody wants to rule the (AI) world
News edition.cnn.com ·Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training
News 404media.co ·Trusting Chatbots with Our Ballots (At the Worst Possible Moment)
News commentary readtpa.com ·A new study looks at the skills journalists are losing (and gaining) because of AI tools
News Nieman Lab ·AI Is Eating the Book World
News commentary Verfassungsblog ·AI's biggest challenge is not compute — it's data storage
News www.theregister.com - Articles ·Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s ‘Made in America’ plan
News Ars Technica - All content ·Does AI Have Speech Rights?
News commentary Columbia Journalism Review ·Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
News Nieman Lab ·Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
News TechCrunch ·Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return
News The Verge ·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