Case Study on iterative prompt evaluation and improvement: A workflow for targeted prompting to refine AI-generated newsletter headlines. (Ashlyn Wang, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

AI for Newsrooms: Sergei Yakupov has collected 93 initiatives and 58 resources. (Previously shared: Kalle Pirhonen’s spreadsheet with 90+ tools and products from around the world.)

Illustrator Christoph Niemann confronts his fears about AI art. (New York Times Magazine)

BBC launches generative AI features: ‘At a Glance’ summaries and ‘Style Assist’ to adapt and reformat stories so that they match house-style.

A new report is called “No Turning Back: AI’s Growing Role in News”, but shows that newsrooms use AI cautiously, hoping for modest gains rather than disruptive transformation. (Felix Simon, Aspen Digital)

A plea for publishers to ditch their walled-garden AI approaches and embrace emerging open standards like Model Context Protocol. (Ben Werdmuller, werd.io)

Time spent on ChatGPT is approaching that spent on social platforms. (Coatue’s 2025 Market Report via Lucy Küng)

Initial US rulings, as expected, give AI training the green light. Some lawsuits against AI companies have been dismissed, with courts distinguishing between AI training (legal) and traditional piracy (still illegal). (Florent Daudens, HuggingFace)

Google AI Mode Live In US: Tests Deep Search, Live Search, Personalization, Custom Charts, Shopping & Agentic. And no, Search Console data will not include breakdowns for AI Mode and AI Overviews. (Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Roundtable)

So… is ChatGPT making us dumb? A viral MIT study, what it actually found, and the delicious irony of how we consume research. (Steffi Kieffer, Substack)

What was reading? Humans turn to AI, viewing text as fungible and blurring the line between primary and secondary sources (Joshua Rothman, New Yorker)

Another fun one: Cloudflare CEO warns of AI-driven “existential threat” to publishers as search traffic dwindles amid bot-fueled content skimming. (Christine Wang, Axios)

People expect that AI will make news cheaper, more current, and easier to understand, one of the findings of the 2025 Digital News Report. (Nic Newman, Reuters Institute)

Not an easy time for dash fans: This Chrome plugin makes AI text feel more human by removing em-dashes (—) as you type or paste.

Yes to deals, payments, and control: Meredith Levien, CEO of The New York Times, talks about the Amazon-deal. She likes to think of Times journalism as “IP”, not “data”. (Adweek, soon on the Mixed Signals podcast from Semafor)