What was reading? Humans turn to AI, viewing text as fungible and blurring the line between primary and secondary sources (Joshua Rothman, New Yorker)
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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)
Against chatbots: Why we need human-centric tools, not user-hostile interfaces. (tante)
LLMs have a “lost in the middle” problem – they focus on the start and end of documents but miss key info in between. (Adam Zewe, MIT News)
30 People to Follow at the Intersection of AI and Academic Publishing. (Helen King, LinkedIn)
Time launches AI audio briefing featuring four-minute podcasts based on its flagship newsletter, with voices from OpenAI called Henry and Lucy.
“A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.” is a love letter to NotebookLM and how historians are using it to analyze data and structure books. (Bill Wasik, New York Times Magazine)
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)
After killing the article, sure, why not kill the author next? This slightly unsettling essay argues that authors don’t matter that much in the first place. Rude. (David J. Gunkel, Noema)
Chatbot alert: International News Media Association launches AI-powered “Ask INMA”, tapping internal content for on-demand media insights.
