Fortune’s Nick Lichtenberg uses AI to write articles, got profiled by the WSJ, and the journalism internet lost its collective mind. Now the Reuters Institute interviews him. Working with AI has “pushed me into more original reporting, because all algorithms and all AI products are necessarily backward-looking.”

Peter Stuart’s AI-powered Velora Cycling runs on a custom CMS that automates everything from news discovery to pre-publish fact-checking. But the real business turns out to be licensing the tool. (Kari McMahon, A Media Operator)

A Basic AI Kit for the Newsroom: Stop sending one-off requests to a chatbot and start building a briefing folder with style guide, examples, constraints, source lists. A check list aimed at small newsrooms that can’t afford to experiment blind. (Alexey Terekhov, Internews)

Fortune’s Nick Lichtenberg cranked out 600+ stories in eight months, with the help of AI. He says that it’s “like a sports car that you can crash if you’re not careful. You’ve got to be like a Formula One driver.” His editor says it’s like having “10 Nicks.” (Isabella Simonetti, Wall Street Journal)

Journalists are using AI to rebuild the support structures they lost when they left traditional newsrooms: editors, fact-checkers, rewrite desks. Alex Heath talks to Claude instead of colleagues. Kevin Roose has a Master Editor agent running sub-agents. And everyone agrees AI writing sounds generic. (Maxwell Zeff, Wired)

“Human in the loop” sounds like oversight. Our cognitive biases turn it into a rubber stamp. Damon Kiesow on how to make checking AI output hurt a little, like red-teaming and forced rewrites. (Working Systems)