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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After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined 'superintelligence'
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News techcrunch.com ·Politico’s AI tool spits out made-up slop, union says
News semafor.com ·As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training
News The Register ·Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning
News The Register ·Getty legal action against AI photo firm is ‘day of reckoning’, start of trial hears
News Press Gazette ·Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry
News Editor and Publisher ·London AI firm says Getty copyright case poses ‘overt threat’ to industry
News Media | The Guardian ·AI Progress Report
News Local News Initiative ·The ‘death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry
News The Guardian - Media ·In the age of AI, human emotion is journalism’s superpower
News Poynter ·AI plundering scripts poses ‘direct threat’ to UK screen sector, says BFI
News Media | The Guardian ·Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
News The Register ·Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress
News commentary The Register ·Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund
News Ars Technica - All content ·OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs 'indefinitely.' Here’s who’s affected.
News Ars Technica - All content ·DOGE used flawed AI tool to 'munch' Veterans Affairs contracts
News ProPublica ·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