When AI is asked to give short, precise answers, it can lead to higher error rates, according to people who run an AI testing platform.
/ AI & Journalism
What would we build today?
What would we build today for people who need trusted, verified information, knowing nothing about newsrooms? That was Nikita Roy's question at the Nordic AI in Media Summit in Copenhagen, hashtag#NAMS25. Rethinking journalism from first principles. One of the many puzzle pieces came from Helsingin Sanomat editor-in-chief Erja Yläjärvi: "Writing is not a core skill...
The New Yorker is doing a really great job right now of pushing the conversation about AI and knowledge professions in a smart, forward-thinking direction. Latest example: An article about the humanities by D. Graham Burnett.
Ezra Eemans’ keynote at the Nordic AI in Media Summit: How news organizations can adapt and compete with “unlimited” information sources. (LinkedIn)
Video: AI prompt engineering deep dive (Anthropic)
How do newsrooms tackle the challenges of generative AI? Hands-on use cases and Q&As in the EBU News Report 2025.
Florent Daudens’ appeal at Nordic AI in Media Summit: Newsrooms must “get real” and build for their fickle, platform-native audience. (LinkedIn)
GenAI in media – 90+ tools and products from around the world. (Kalle Pirhonen, Numeroiden takaa)
Data analysis challenges Google’s AI Overviews claims, suggesting 34.5% fewer clicks.
“They may feel that AI has come for them, and so their reaction (and therefore their language) is visceral and raw“, writes David Caswell about how some journalists are getting defensive and what conversation we need now. (Reuters Institute)
AI is a Cult, They Want to Create God and Kill Journalism
That's the narrative. It goes like this: There's a group of powerful people in Silicon Valley who believe in effective altruism, want to live forever, and might be susceptible to fascism. They're not only building AI but believe in a super-intelligence that will have no bias and all the answers. So why not get rid...
Reuters Institute’s highlights from the International Journalism Festival 2025 in Perugia.
Transformer Lab is an open-source platform for building, tuning, and running LLMs locally, sans coding.
Seamless MCP-powered integrations sound appealing, but raise performance and security concerns. (Shrivu’s Substack)
