You shall not pass… unless you pay: Cloudflare has launched a private beta enabling customers to allow, charge, or block bot-access to their content. For it to work, bot operators such as OpenAI or Google would have to use a new protocol named Web Bot Auth and be willing to pay.
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Getting Started: Essential AI and Journalism Resources
AI is disrupting journalism. Now what? If you asked me, this is what I'd suggest spending time on.
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)
10 Facts Everyone Should Know About AI
So ChatGPT walked into the newsroom, and now everyone's acting like they've discovered fire. Here's what I wish every journalist (and everyone else) knew about AI. This is my practical introduction, without the hype. When we say "AI," we're often talking about ChatGPT and its digital siblings. Large language models that have basically eaten the...
The Summer of AI (Tote Bag Not Included)
If you’re trying to get anything done right now, good luck. Your emails are about to be ghosted by a wall of auto-replies. It’s summer in Europe, which means everyone’s either on a beach or aggressively pretending to read a book by the pool. Can you blame them? The world’s a mess—wars, fascism making a...
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)
