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)
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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)
Who’s who in the German-speaking LinkedIn universe when it comes to AI and journalism?
You suggested names, I went through my feeds. This list brings together journalists and AI leaders who make a habit of sharing their knowledge.
Testing Dia: The AI Browser Betting on a Future Beyond Chrome and Siri
For the last ten days, I've been using Dia, a new AI-enhanced web browser. So far, it's not going great. But first, let's look at the premise. Several players are racing to slap AI onto our everyday web use, betting that we're not ditching the whole "sitting in front of a screen to get things...
So… is ChatGPT making us dumb? A viral MIT study, what it actually found, and the delicious irony of how we consume research. (Steffi Kieffer, Substack)
What was reading? Humans turn to AI, viewing text as fungible and blurring the line between primary and secondary sources (Joshua Rothman, New Yorker)
Another fun one: Cloudflare CEO warns of AI-driven “existential threat” to publishers as search traffic dwindles amid bot-fueled content skimming. (Christine Wang, Axios)
People expect that AI will make news cheaper, more current, and easier to understand, one of the findings of the 2025 Digital News Report. (Nic Newman, Reuters Institute)
