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.
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Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing
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News NYT - Media ·Major UK and US publishers join forces to block AI scrapers
News Press Gazette ·Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default
News NYT > Business > Media ·Remember that ‘drunk Pelosi’ video? AI-powered deepfakes are making disinformation much more toxic.
News commentary Media Nation ·AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
News The Register ·Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI
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News commentary Techdirt ·Fed chair Powell says AI is coming for your job
News The Register ·YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel
News techcrunch.com ·Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem
News techcrunch.com ·Judge rejects Meta’s claim that torrenting is 'irrelevant' in AI copyright case
News Ars Technica - All content ·Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases
News commentary Techdirt ·Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says
News Ars Technica - All content ·Google begins rolling out AI search in YouTube
News Ars Technica - All content ·Judge Alsup: Training AI On Copyrighted Works? Fair Use. Building Pirate Libraries? Not So Much
News commentary Techdirt ·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