“The New York Times has cut ties with a freelance journalist after discovering he used artificial intelligence to help write a book review that echoed elements of a review of the same book in the Guardian.”

Who’s hyping whom? We cover AI while AI puts our industry under pressure. Transformation has become the default framing. A special issue of Digital Journalism looks at the hype cycle.

Journalist suspended for publishing AI-hallucinated quotes: A former editor-in-chief of NRC used ChatGPT, Perplexity, and NotebookLM for his newsletter, but didn’t verify quotes. He had warned colleagues about exactly this. (Dan Milmo, Guardian)

Three roles for AI in journalism: source, colleague, assistant. A framework that’s more useful than another round of newsroom culture war. (Stephen J. Adler, Columbia Journalism Review)

The first white-collar job that AI can actually replace is the one that built the AI. Now coding is conversational. One dev is pleading with his chatbot: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.” (Clive Thompson, New York Times)

Three years after pivoting to AI, BuzzFeed says there’s “substantial doubt” it can keep going. (Victor Tangermann, Futurism)

An editor gets a promising pitch, starts googling, and finds a byline that exists everywhere and nowhere. A podcast episode about a scammer – and that some sources didn’t care about being faked. (Question Everything)

238k speeches: Guardian and UCL trained a non-generative ML model on 100 years of House of Commons debates. Both Labour and Conservative MPs are currently at or near their most hostile on immigration, driven by competition with Reform UK.

Time put “The People vs. AI” on its cover and profiled nine Americans fighting data centers, chatbot harms, and AI in hospitals. A companion essay argues AI policy has left the wonk phase and entered kitchen-table politics, but neither party in the U.S. knows what to say about it yet. (Andrew R. Chow / Rebecca Lissner)

The Independent Journalism Atlas is building a database of people doing journalism outside traditional newsrooms. It maps creators by beat, format, business model, and audience.

“In 2026, it’s a scary time to work for a living.” That’s how the Guardian launches Reworked, a yearlong series on AI and the future of the job. The same technology that’s making software engineers nervous is making them realize they have more in common with warehouse workers than with their CEOs. (Samantha Oltman)