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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'Embrace A.I. Or You Die'
News Status ·Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
News The New Tork Times ·The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
News NYT > Business > Media ·How The Times (U.K.) is using AI to model synthetic focus groups from human audiences
News Digiday ·✨💑 New_ Public’s AI framework: Learn in public, keep humans centered
News New_ Public ·How Big Tech uses NDAs to hide AI data center details from Americans
News nbcnews.com ·A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
News NYT > Business > Media ·Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
News theatlantic.com ·Are we helping to destroy the planet every time we ask ChatGPT a question?
News link.newyorker.com ·Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
News newyorker.com ·Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
News Audience & Social – Nieman Lab ·How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls
News Columbia Journalism Review ·Researchers Explore the Use of LLMs for Content Moderation
News Tech Policy Press ·AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer
News The Register ·Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President
News Wired ·Study claims 9% of US newspaper articles at least partly AI generated
News Press Gazette ·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