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
Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training
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News Ars Technica - All content ·YouTube adds an AI Overviews-like search results carousel
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·A lot has changed since we created AI ethics guidelines for newsrooms. Here’s what you need to know now
News release Poynter ·Can AI Tools Meet Journalistic Standards?
News commentary Columbia Journalism Review ·Should AI companies be able to train their models on stolen books?
News commentary Popular Information ·Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds
News The Register ·Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
News Media | The Guardian ·A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
News newyorker.com ·What it takes to sue OpenAI as a journalism nonprofit
News Nieman Lab ·34% of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT, about double the share in 2023
News Short Reads Archive | Pew Research Center ·The web's 'original sin': Garrett Graff on tech's deadly embrace of the algorithm
News Long Lead Presents: Depth Perception ·Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time
News theverge.com ·Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
News 404media.co ·Why employees are so secretive about using AI at work — and why they shouldn’t be
News commentary Digiday ·Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues
News The Register ·LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules
News The Register ·AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want it?)
News Nieman Lab ·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