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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Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians
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News The Register ·What actually works: Clare Spencer on generative AI use in newsrooms
News Storybench ·U.K. Media Giants, Including BBC and Sky, Form AI Publishing Rights Coalition, Ask Global Leaders to Join to 'Protect Original Journalism'
News The Hollywood Reporter ·AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.
News Columbia Journalism Review ·U.K. News Organizations — Including BBC — Form Media Coalition Over AI Publishing Rights to ‘Protect Original Journalism’
News Variety ·Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI
News The Guardian - Media ·Bleak Research Report Stokes A.I. Debate on Wall St.
News The New York Times ·Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
News commentary Blood in the Machine ·A Timeline of the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute
News Tech Policy Press ·LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
News commentary The Register ·Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit
News Ars Technica - All content ·How to Manage Misinformation in Large Language Models
News Tech Policy Press ·Breaking Down the Doomsday AI Memo That Spooked Markets
News wsj.com ·In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News
News Columbia Journalism Review ·AI is simultaneously aiding and replacing workers, wage data suggest
News dallasfed.org ·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