The public isn’t impressed: If you ask people what AI in news will do for them, the answer is mostly “make it worse.” High assumed use, low expected benefit. News media rank below search engines and social media on public AI optimism. One reason: journalists are unusually good at publicizing their own AI screw-ups. (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen)
A library of 42 copy-paste agent loop prompts for Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code. An agent loop is a task with a built-in check: do work, verify result, continue or stop. Some prompts are useful (“fresh-clone loop,” “devil’s advocate loop”), some are wishful thinking (“100% test coverage loop”), most land in between.
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei thinks AI made him a better writer and editor and wants to tell us. He’s not showing us his (boring?) prompts, but flexes about a conversation loop that teaches Claude his style.
Google’s answer to AI agents fumbling around for context: put markdown files in a folder. The Open Knowledge Format is a simple spec for giving AI systems internal knowledge. (Sam McVeety, Google Cloud Blog)
The agentic divide is here: Well-resourced firms plug AI agents into their entire stack and scale infinitely. Everyone else gets high-friction, low-trust tools that can barely fill out a form. India’s government-led citizen agent programs are trying to close the gap. (Rina Chandran, Rest of World)
A new open standard wants to track how AI agents use publisher content – not just the request, but whether it influenced the response, got cited, reached the user, and drove engagement. The SPUR Coalition’s Content Telemetry spec is now open for public comment.
Couldn’t make it to Denmark for the Nordic AI in Media Summit 2026? Kalle Pirhonen turned the NAMS26 YouTube recordings into a shared NotebookLM notebook.
Build interactive widgets for articles with AI. If it breaks in a week, no one cares. If it draws an audience, you invest. A Norwegian group of local papers turned that into policy. (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
While you type, the computer guesses your next word. Press tab to accept it. The more you use it, the better it gets. By computer, I mean a small AI model running entirely on your machine. Private, fast, and free of API costs. This can feel like actual magic. I've been chasing something like this...
“We cannot watch as AI companies attempt to permanently dismantle the rights that give us control over the work we create. We cannot sit by as this work is used to build replacement products that undermine our ability to earn the audience and revenue necessary to continue reporting the news.” (New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger)
75 cards to help your newsroom figure out AI before someone makes a bad call: A free kit covering ethics, workflows, and use cases, developed with 15 journalists and trainers across multiple countries. (DW Akademie and MethodKit)
UK publishers will be able to opt out of Google’s AI Overviews, per CMA, the UK competition watchdog.
Muscle memory for agents: The Printing Press. An agent-native CLI for any API, app, or site from a single prompt. The library already has 170-plus CLIs across travel, CRM, media, and more.
Three publisher coalitions have already committed to three incompatible models, and whichever one becomes the default makes the other two marginal. (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)
