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
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
News Ars Technica - All content ·AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals
News The Register ·'The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not': Notes from the Nordic AI in Media Summit
News Nieman Lab ·Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
News Ars Technica - All content ·Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
News commentary 404 Media ·Researchers Say the Most Popular Tool for Grading AIs Unfairly Favors Meta, Google, OpenAI
News 404 Media ·Browser Wars: The Rise of AI
News Columbia Journalism Review ·AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?
News The Register ·Media Briefing: What The Washington Post’s deal with OpenAI says about the future of AI content licensing
News Digiday ·Meta Ramps Up AI Spending—Again
News The Information ·Ex-NSA cyber-boss: AI will soon be a great exploit coder
News The Register ·Wikipedia announces new AI strategy to 'support human editors'
News Nieman Lab ·First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues
News Ars Technica - All content ·The end of an AI that shocked the world: OpenAI retires GPT-4
News Ars Technica - All content ·OpenAI pulls plug on ChatGPT smarmbot that praised user for ditching psychiatric meds
News The Register ·30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff
News The Register ·OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess
News Ars Technica - All content ·Freepik releases an ‘open’ AI image generator trained on licensed data
News Media & Entertainment News | TechCrunch ·Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors
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