AI Mode has over 100 million monthly active users in the U.S. and India, says Google. (Abner Li, 9to5Google)

Scoops by passionate people you trust: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei sees no future for “average” journalists who chronicle events and declares the era of “Super Journalists.” He might be right and tone-deaf.

Make prompt engineering great again: A growing list of tools may help you improve your generative AI prompts, but sometimes all you need is a spreadsheet. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

Substack surveyed 2,000 of its publishers: Male writers embrace AI (55%), women less enthralled (38%) by the so-called productivity boost.

Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, Muck Rack study finds. Major models cite journalism in nearly half of responses that require recency. (Andrew Deck, NiemanLab)

Surprising no one, new report from The Pew Research Center says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks. (Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica)

AI-generated band “The Velvet Sundown” garners 1M+ Spotify streams, sparking debates over platform transparency and artist compensation. (Lanre Bakare, The Guardian)

AI etiquette: “Whoa, let me stop you right here buddy, what you’re doing here is extremely, horribly rude.” (Alex Martsinovich)

The Directory of Liquid Content: Sannuta Raghu made a framework to make it easier to assemble, adapt, or repurpose news stories across contexts, users, or platforms.

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it? asks The Economist, referring to business models that rely on traffic and advertising. Tollbit, a paywall for bots, reports its highest per-crawl rates at a local newspaper. Unique content appears to be part of the solution.

How the Associated Press Built its AI Strategy Without Breaking Trust (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)

Google got The Economist and The Atlantic to provide content for NotebookLM (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work: “”Where are the journalists who were formerly middling who are now pumping out incredible articles thanks to efficiencies granted by AI?” (Jason Koebler, 404 Media)

“Own the interface, control the signal and reshape the economics”: The next browser wars are here—and AI wants the ad dollars too. (Krystal Scanlon, Digiday)

Alex Reisner reports on Silicon Valley’s “assault” on the media: “The world is changing fast, perhaps irrevocably. The institutions that comprise our country’s free press are fighting for their survival.” (The Atlantic)