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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The government is enlisting AI to help decide what public records you get to see
News The Washington Post ·As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
News The New York Times ·Google Has Its Hand Around the Throat of the Independent Media and It’s Squeezing Harder and Harder
News commentary Futurism ·OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
News The Verge ·At the UN and in Washington, Leaders Clash on Approach to AI
News Tech Policy Press ·Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
News Ars Technica - All content ·What’s really behind AI ‘super intelligence’
News commentary Blood in the Machine ·Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real
News www.theregister.com - Articles ·Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does
News science.org ·OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’
News www.theregister.com - Articles ·Trump’s China rivalry and ‘AI race’ delusion may endanger US, experts say
News Ars Technica - All content ·Prominent art therapist quoted by Vice, Forbes and others is AI-generated
News pressgazette.co.uk ·Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
News commentary www.theregister.com - Articles ·‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
News TechCrunch ·Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down
News www.theregister.com - Articles ·New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
News Ars Technica - All content ·Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative
News Pew Research Center ·Inside Wikipedia's Plan to Survive the Answer Engine Apocalypse
News adweek.com ·California tightens datacenter rules on water and power
News www.theregister.com - Articles ·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