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 Register ·Le Monde CEO urges publishers to sign AI partnerships to stay competitive
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News The Register ·It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
News commentary nytimes.com ·Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds
News The Register ·States are the Stewards of the People’s Trust in AI
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Which journalists and news outlets are most cited by AI answer engines?
News Press Gazette ·Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
News commentary The New Yorker ·Refusing to accept an AI-poisoned future of journalism
News commentary thehandbasket.co ·AI agents promise to 'run the business,' but who is liable if things go wrong?
News The Register ·It's open season for refusing AI
News commentary Blood in the Machine ·'Cognitive surrender' leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
News Ars Technica - All content ·Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
News Ars Technica - All content ·The Boston Globe ends its use of the AI tool Nota after Poynter reports that it plagiarizes
News Media Nation ·The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era
News TechCrunch ·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