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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Sam Altman says Sora will add ‘granular,’ opt-in copyright controls
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News NYT > Business > Media ·‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
News Media | The Guardian ·The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents
News The Verge ·The UN’s Global Dialogue on AI Must Give Citizens a Real Seat at the Table
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Google appears to be throttling AI searches about Trump’s obviously addled mental state
News commentary Media Nation ·Reddit Is Winning the AI Game
News Columbia Journalism Review ·My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2
News Poynter ·'AI is an attack from above on wages': An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
News Blood in the Machine ·Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
News The Register ·Hollywood is not taking kindly to the AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT
News Publications | Pew Research Center ·Americans have mixed feelings about AI summaries in search results
News Publications | Pew Research Center ·September 2025 US Tech Policy Roundup
News Tech Policy Press ·Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis
News The Register ·Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs
News analysis budgetlab.yale.edu ·Wave of Phony News Quotes Affects Everyone—Including EFF
News eff.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