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)

Yes to deals, payments, and control: Meredith Levien, CEO of The New York Times, talks about the Amazon-deal. She likes to think of Times journalism as “IP”, not “data”. (Adweek, soon on the Mixed Signals podcast from Semafor)

Time launches AI audio briefing featuring four-minute podcasts based on its flagship newsletter, with voices from OpenAI called Henry and Lucy.

The rise of retrieval bots raises questions about data ownership, monetization, and the future of the open web. (Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post)

Outrage me: Your deepest, darkest user needs and the emotional economics of modern journalism. (Peter Erdelyi, Media Finance Monitor)

Google’s AI Mode could deal a devastating blow to the web’s business model. (Thomas Germain, BBC)

Metrics mutate: SEO rankings and clicks out, “embedding relevance” and “chunk retrieval” in as GenAI rewrites the rules of engagement. (Duane Forrester Decodes)

Chatbot alert: International News Media Association launches AI-powered “Ask INMA”, tapping internal content for on-demand media insights.

Who to follow: 75 expert voices at the intersection of AI and journalism (Marcela Kunova and Jacob Granger, journalism.co.uk)

Google tests NotebookLM’s chatty AI podcast on Search.