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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White House AI Safety Accord Has No Penalties, No Breach Reporting, Self-Chosen Auditors
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News Pew Research Center ·Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
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News The Verge ·‘Pink Slime’ Is Infecting AI Chatbots Ahead of the Midterms
News politico.com ·Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
News Ars Technica - All content ·Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
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News www.theregister.com - Articles ·Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping
News digiday.com ·Reporting Confirms: Stupid Over-Reliance On Palantir AI Helped Lead To US Bombing Of Iranian Schoolgirls
News commentary Techdirt ·Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
News TechCrunch ·Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
News Ars Technica - All content ·Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
News Ars Technica - All content ·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