Journalism and AI
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated in newsrooms around the world in a variety of ways even as it is redefining and challenging the online news business. Here you will find links to articles, clips and videos that will be updated from time to time to help better understand this accelerating trend.
Publishers with AI licensing deals have seven times the clickthrough rate. But deals leave small outlets out in the cold.
AI gatekeepers’ discretionary deal-making, which currently largely locks out all but large, premium, English-language titles, will be a key determinant of success as AI adoption and diffusion continues to accelerate.
Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT
While use of AI Chatbots is growing, only about one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini.
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Judge approves $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's alleged use of pirated books
A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots
The Economist's AI Game Plan
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Summaries
The AI Doomers Are Losing the Argument
A Complete List of Publishers and Their AI Licensing Deals (as of Sept. 1, 2025)
Existential crisis: how Google's shift to AI has upended the online news model
Google has always felt like it would always be there for publishers. Now the one constant in digital publishing is undergoing a transformation that may completely change the landscape.
Why The Baltimore Times sees AI as a friend, not a threat
At a time when many newsrooms fear artificial intelligence, The Baltimore Times is leaning in.
Gender gap in who uses AI. Recent study finds usage tilts heavily toward men.
Authors of a recent study looked at generative AI adoption globally and found a pronounced gap in men's and women's usage of AI, both professionally and in everyday life.
I Wanted a Team of Rivals to Give Me Advice. So I Turned to AI.
By creating a group of virtual experts, each with a unique personality and specialty, I got more feedback than I ever could in real life. AI can assemble a virtual team of experts to provide diverse perspectives on problems, helping users overcome self-doubt.
Can AI help local journalists cover 169 towns? A Connecticut out is working to find out
In Connecticut, where news is often made in municipal meetings, the nonprofit Connecticut Mirror beat reporters can't make it to all 169 different towns,The outlet is exploring whether AI tools can generate leads and get material from those meetings to reporters.
AI startup Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for news articles used in its search results.
Perplexity says it expects to pay publishers from a $42.5 million revenue pool initially, and to increase that amount over time, The money will be distributed when its AI assistant or search engine uses a news article to fulfill a task or answer a search request.
SHORT VIDEO: AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports
7-minute video from NBC News shows how hyper-realistic AI-generated news videos are flooding social media, making it harder to tell real reports from fakes. Experts warn the technology spreading misinformation before it's verified, raising new concerns about trust in what we see online.
SHORT VIDEO: How the New York Times uses AI in its investigations | AI and the Future of News 2025
In this 5-minute video, Dylan Freedman, a New York Times Machine Learning Engineer and Journalist, show how the newspaper is using AI tools to help in investigative reporting research. Freedman appeared in conjunction with the Reuters Institute.
AI-powered search tools threaten the survival of the online news industry
The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI
Amazon to Pay New York Times at Least $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
Terms of the multiyear deal, which haven't previously been disclosed, offer a window into how publishers and AI companies are valuing news content in midst of seismic changes in how consumers seek information online. The annual payment amounts to nearly 1% of the Times's 2024 revenue.