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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Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
News Media | The Guardian ·Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock
News The Register ·The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
News The New York Times ·AI Therapy Is a Surveillance Machine in a Police State
News commentary The Verge ·Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
News commentary The Verge ·xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up 'white genocide' in South Africa
News Ars Technica - All content ·Google DeepMind creates super-advanced AI that can invent new algorithms
News Ars Technica - All content ·Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing
News Ars Technica - All content ·The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
News The Register ·Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says
News Ars Technica - All content ·Do AI Detection Tools Work?
News Columbia Journalism Review ·Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?
News The Register ·The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP’s Favorite ‘Save The Children’ Laws
News Techdirt ·ChatGPT may be polite, but it’s not cooperating with you
News commentary Media | The Guardian ·GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
News commentary Ars Technica - All content ·New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots
News Ars Technica - All content ·Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies
News The Register ·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