Channel4 had a segment about AI-driven job loss presented by an AI host—and the Guardian published a hilarious (if not predictably) takedown. (Stuart Heritage, The Guardian)

The Journalism Benchmark Cookbook: We prototyped a benchmark evaluating the task of information extraction in journalism. (Charlotte Li, Jeremy Gilbert, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Generative AI in the Newsroom)

The current AI browser landscape and what it means for publishers: How content is used, and whether compensation or licensing is on the table. (Bertrand de Volontat, Nordot)

Our AI Narration Plugin is yours to use: If you’re running a newsroom on WordPress, you can now spin up AI-generated audio versions of your articles without having to cobble together some Frankenstein workflow involving three different APIs and a prayer. (Rest of World)

“Should news publishers build for ChatGPT’s 800M users? Dug into OpenAI’s new Apps SDK documentation and the implications are fascinating.” (Florent Daudens, LinkedIn)

Generative AI and news report 2025: “We document rapid growth in the use of a new set of tools bound to impact the discovery of information, how people use it, and, by extension over time, changing competition for both attention, advertising, and the money people are willing to spend on media and content.” (Felix Simon, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Reuters Institute)

OpenAI has released Pulse, a new ChatGPT feature that shows personalized cards based on previous interactions to boost discovery and engagement. Conor Grennan got early access and shared a screen recording.

On Cloudflare’s very surprising ideas about AI and the future of web publishing: “That’s my counterprosal: AI should pay for the stuff it already uses, and people should keep putting up paywalls.” (Paul Ford, Aboard)

The New York Times’ Zach Seward on AI newsroom strategy: “We’re not trying to be AI boosters. In fact, quite the opposite. I think there’s a lot of caution. A lot of time we spend cautioning people about uses of AI, both [in the] legal and editorial senses.” (Sara Guaglione, Digiday)

The News Industry’s GenAI Cautionary Tales: Generative AI failures have shown, among other things, the value of scrutinizing outsourced work. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)