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.
State of the business model | Copyright and intellectual property
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How Teens Use and View AI
News Publications | Pew Research Center ·AI writing is improving — but it can’t replace the process that makes writing human
News commentary Storybench ·AI Will Never Be Conscious
News commentary Backchannel Latest ·Altman: You think AI is inefficient? Try raising 100 billion humans.
News The Register ·OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats
News TechCrunch ·What the ‘AI inflection point’ means for journalism
News commentary Fast Company - technology ·Copyright and AI Policy Needs Precision, Not Panic
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·US Critical Mineral Aggression Abroad Connected to Data Center Fights at Home
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·US tech giants open their wallets for AI-friendly politicians
News The Register ·The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers
News commentary The Atlantic ·AI agents can't teach themselves new tricks – only people can
News The Register ·How AI is transforming freelance journalism
News Nieman Lab ·The San Francisco Standard gets $150K to build an AI-powered news app
News Nieman Lab ·About that Cleveland column
News American Press Institute ·Ars Technica Retracts Story Featuring Fake Quotes Made Up By AI, About A Different AI That Launched A Weird Smear Campaign Against An Engineer Who Rejected Its Code (Seriously)
News commentary Techdirt ·WordPress.com adds an AI Assistant that can edit, adjust styles, create images, and more | TechCrunch
News techcrunch.com ·Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
News The Register ·Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
News commentary Techdirt ·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