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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Whoops: Chicago Sun-Times Publishes ‘AI’ Generated ‘Summer Guide’ Full Of Made Up Recommended Books, Nonexistent People
News commentary Techdirt ·Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
News commentary Ars Technica - All content ·That AI-generated list of fake books was published by a Hearst subsidiary, 404 Media reports
News commentary Media Nation ·Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture
News The Register ·Will Writing Survive A.I.? The Media Startup Every Is Betting on It.
News NYT - Media ·AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
News commentary The Register ·Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds
News Media | The Guardian ·The definitive publisher guide to what’s in and out in the era of Google’s AI Overviews
News Digiday ·AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search
News The Verge ·At Google I/O, everything is changing and normal and scary and chill
News commentary Platformer ·Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
News The Register ·Google’s unveils ‘AI Mode’ in the next phase of its journey to change search
News Media | The Guardian ·Copyright Licensing For AI Training Won’t Make Anything 'Fair'
News commentary Techdirt ·Gemini 2.5 is leaving preview just in time for Google’s new $250 AI subscription
News Ars Technica - All content ·Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things
News The Register ·Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn
News The Register ·Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
News 404 Media ·Adobe to automatically move subscribers to pricier, AI-focused tier in June
News Ars Technica - All content ·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