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 startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit
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News J-Source ·DOGE’s Flops Shouldn’t Spell Doom for AI In Government
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable.
News The Register ·Let the Public Govern AI
News commentary Tech Policy Press ·Access to Critical Minerals is the Achilles’ Heel of Trump’s AI Ambitions
News Tech Policy Press ·AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’
News Press Gazette ·Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
News Audience & Social – Nieman Lab ·Tech companies pledge to ready Americans for an AI-dominated world
News The Verge ·New way to reject reality
News commentary view.newsletters.cnn.com ·Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, newsrooms are experimenting with conversational AI
News Audience & Social – Nieman Lab ·Wired, Business Insider Editors Duped By Completely Bogus ‘AI’ Using ‘Journalist’ Who Made Up Towns, People That Don’t Exist
News commentary Techdirt ·Cloudflare's Matthew Prince has a plan to get Google and the AI oligarchs to pay for your content even though many are used to getting it for free. He might have enough leverage to make them.
News commentary crazystupidtech.com ·A.I. Is Coming for Culture
News commentary newyorker.com ·People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement
News futurism.com ·New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market
News futurism.com ·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