It’s the death of the article. “With generative AI, we’re entering a new era: content is becoming dynamic again, flowing like water to adapt to you—your time, space, and interactions,” says Google’s Matthie Lorrain. Text-to-speech is just a tiny step in that direction. "What if news media were to let go of the artifact as...
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Schibsted's Videofy is now open source: The tool pulls a published article, writes a script, matches footage, adds a voiceover, and hands editors a finished video.
A young reader got so frustrated with the FT’s news product that she built her own using Claude Code. She’s paying for a subscription, she wants personalized news, and she couldn’t figure out how to get it. (Jodie Hopperton, INMA)
The information ecosystem has four new rules: production is cheap, machines are the audience, content is liquid, and intention beats attention. Shuwei Fang buries the current publishing model, and somehow ends up optimistic: journalism needs to stop protecting the article and start selling the process. (Reuters Institute)
“Not ‘how do I get paid for my articles by AI’ but ‘how do I architect my knowledge so it can reach customers I’ve never had access to before'”: A three-layer AI monetization framework, with O’Reilly as proof of concept. (Florent Daudens, AI in the News)
The Brutal Economics of Liquid Content: “Only organizations with massive scale or premium brand differentiation can survive these economics.” The article? Commodified. “What if news media were to let go of the artifact as the product and productize the process instead?” (Shuwei Fang, Radically Informed)
Thoughts on ChatGPT apps and why they aren’t mini versions of existing news products: “The entire premise of building a ChatGPT App is to expose capabilities, not pages. This is the existential shift for news orgs accustomed to owning the screen.” (Florent Daudens, LinkedIn)
While everyone is talking about Liquid Content, Time Magazine is launching its AI Agent, a kind of Deep Research based on its own archive.
“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)
What happens to carefully crafted journalism when readers expect AI-generated, personalized stories created instantly? Semafor’s Gina Chua on how AI will upend the news.
What I Learned from Making a ‘Liquid Content’ Machine (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
The Directory of Liquid Content: Sannuta Raghu made a framework to make it easier to assemble, adapt, or repurpose news stories across contexts, users, or platforms.
“While journalists perfect their craft for human readers, technology companies are building parallel infrastructure for AI consumption. The risk isn’t replacement, it’s irrelevance.” (Shuwei Fang, Splice)
