Ask AI “what’s the biggest pay gap?” and it’ll miss negative numbers. Ask for “the company” with the top score and it’ll ignore ties. Paul Bradshaw tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot for data analysis – and catalogues where tools trip up. (Medium)
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Vibe coding starter guide for newsrooms (Joe Amditis, Center for Cooperative Media)
Three examples of AI translation at Chicago’s La Voz, The Economist, and BBC News Polska. What unfortunately isn’t mentioned: What happens to quotes that need to be translated back into their original language. (Clare Spencer, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
Palantir is providing Fox News with three AI tools: “Topic Radar” generates custom briefings for reporters, “Text Editor” reviews articles for style and readability, and “Article Insights tracks performance and suggests optimizations. (Sara Fischer, Axios)
The Top Challenges of Using LLMs for Content Moderation: While it’s from a corporate blog of a vendor of AI-enabled moderation, I found it to be useful, particularly the common-pitfalls-section. (Alice Hunsberger, Musubi)
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)
Sora Watermarker: Add the Sora watermark to any video.
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)
Don’t count on counting fingers: Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content (Henk van Ess, Global Investigative Journalism Network)
“A year ago, custom GPTs were the thing. Fast forward to today… and it almost feels vintage. But here’s the truth: many of us use custom AI agents in the newsroom, they are real and USEFUL.” (Alba Mora Roca, LinkedIn)
You do not have to use generative ai “art” because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free (Jenn Schiffer, Live Laugh Blog)
How Hearst’s DevHub is Building AI Tools That Work for Local News (Ulrike Langer, News Machines)


