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
The Latest
AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
News Wired ·Tracking the Paris Prosecutor's Investigation into Elon Musk's X
News Tech Policy Press ·Journalism at an AI Inflection Point
News Nieman Reports ·X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops
News The Register ·UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes
News Media | The Guardian ·Why these researchers say AI could be mortal threat to democracy
News sfexaminer.com ·Axios’ OpenAI Arrangement
News Status ·Is the inverted pyramid for old people?
News Nieman Lab ·The real threat of AI is the collapse of trust
News Poynter ·AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’?
News commentary TechCrunch ·How to Apply the 'Tyrant Test' to Technology
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
News propublica.org ·The AI bubble will pop. It’s up to us to replace it responsibly.
News commentary Media | The Guardian ·How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?
News Ars Technica - All content ·Big Tech runs counter to journalism values. So why is the news industry helping tech take over?
News commentary RJI ·AI is Removing Bottlenecks to Effective Content Moderation at Scale
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Mark Zuckerberg is all in on AI as the new social media
News The Verge ·How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies
News The Register ·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