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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European Creators Slam AI Act Implementation, Warn Copyright Protections Are Failing
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News The Verge ·A Cash Infusion from Chatbots?
News Columbia Journalism Review ·Tech elites are turning AI into ChatGPTrump
News commentary Public Notice ·Grok’s behavior isn’t surprising – but we needn’t settle for Musk’s vision of the future
News commentary Media | The Guardian ·White House AI Action Plan spurs debate among marketers over regulatory oversight in advertising
News Digiday ·A wish list with limits: What publishers want to see from Google’s AI licensing deals
News Digiday ·Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models
News thebaltimorebanner.com ·DOGE has built an AI tool to slash federal regulations
News TechCrunch ·Congress tries to outlaw AI that jacks up prices based on what it knows about you
News The Register ·I sat in on an AI training session at KPMG. It was almost like being back at journalism school.
News Business Insider ·Creativity, Freedom Of Speech & Freedom Of Thought
News commentary Techdirt ·US places fresh export restrictions on AI chips
News dw.com ·White House unveils sweeping plan to 'win' global AI race through deregulation
News arstechnica.com ·Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, study finds
News Nieman Lab ·White House Releases Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
News lawfaremedia.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