Your AI agent is a snitch: We’re chatting on Signal, enjoying encryption, right? But your DIY productivity agent is piping the whole thing back to Anthropic. (John Scott-Railton, X)
/ AI & Journalism
A Finnish newsroom’s AI rules: Helsingin Sanomat’s guidelines (Esa Mäkinen, LinkedIn)
ChatGPT is getting ads, starting with US users: people on the free tier and on the $8 Go plan are being shown ads tailored to answers, in prominent photo boxes. If only OpenAI would link to journalistic content with the same enthusiasm. (Emma Roth, The Verge)
Can AI help crack the 1986 Olof Palme assassination? Anton Berg and Martin Johnson are using AI to reanalyze the huge archive of police material. Their podcast Spår follows the work (in Swedish).
Microsoft is launching a Publisher Content Marketplace to license articles into AI products like Copilot, promising publishers control, transparency, and usage-based payment for content that grounds conversational answers.
Bring AI into your CMS with a Chrome plugin
This gets a little technical, but with AI's help it's straightforward. Here's how it works: a Chrome plugin grabs content from the CMS text fields, sends it to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude with various preset prompts, and displays the response right in the browser. For example: checking against your house style. A plausibility check. Suggestions...
Model of the moment
If you aren’t using Qwen3-Max-Thinking already, you’re … just like me. As much as I try to stay current, I also have to get real work done. So for me it’s the latest Claude Opus and the latest Gemini, for both writing and coding. I bounce between the two: most days I start with Opus,...
How to use AI without getting dumb: Strategies for critical prompt design to keep AI from becoming a cheap shortcut or decision-maker. (Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog)
Google says no: “We really don’t want you to think you need to be doing that or produce two versions of your content, one for the LLM and one for the net.” (Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land)
The name says “Code,” but you don’t need to write any: Florent Daudens walks journalists through setting up Claude Code as a persistent reporting assistant that can read your files, track your story, and stop asking you to re-upload that PDF for the fifth time.
Ask AI “what’s the biggest pay gap?” and it’ll miss negative numbers. Ask for “the company” with the top score and it’ll ignore ties. Paul Bradshaw tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot for data analysis – and catalogues where tools trip up. (Medium)
Scale back service journalism, evergreen content, and general news – instead, focus more on original investigations and on-the-ground reporting. That’s one response to AI. More trends for the year in Nic Newman’s Trend Report. (Reuters Institute)
