Every morning, Michelle Seo receives a briefing from Chattiana, her Muse AI agent. It combines her agenda with topics pulled from newsletters she follows.
The briefing links back to the original sources. Seo, a San Diego public relations consultant, told WIRED that the summaries help her start conversations.
Her routine reflects a broader experiment underway at some publishers. Outlets including Axios and Every are developing products designed to work directly with artificial intelligence agents.
Axios is taking a structured approach.
Chief Revenue Officer Jacquelyn Cameron said the company expects the media ecosystem to keep changing. She pointed to declining search traffic and pressure on the open web.
At the Digiday Publishing Summit in September, Axios announced Axios Direct. The product consists of standardized feeds designed for AI systems and agents.
The feeds resemble RSS but prioritize structured information over traditional article presentation. Cameron compared the format with a Bloomberg terminal rather than a collection of stories.
Axios is not eliminating narrative journalism. Instead, WIRED reports that the publisher is reducing some narrative elements to prioritize structured data for machine use.
The first Axios Direct feed launched this fall for Axios Pro Deals subscribers. It gives their agents access to merger and acquisition reporting.
Axios plans another feed next year for companies training internal large language models. A third planned product would send Axios reporting directly to individual subscribers’ agents.
An all-access Axios Pro Deals subscription costs $2,499 annually.
Every is taking a different approach by letting readers reshape its journalism with AI.
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Founder Dan Shipper said writers include prompts that readers can copy into AI tools. Some guides also include buttons labeled “Read With Claude” or “Read With ChatGPT.”
One recent 8,000-word article about Codex includes a database containing reporting from the project. Subscribers can let their agents use that material to create different formats.
A reader could request a summary, podcast or video built from the underlying reporting. Every charges $288 annually, which Shipper views as covering both the subscriber and their agents.
The business model remains uncertain.
WIRED provides no revenue figures for either publisher’s agent-focused products. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, a University of Copenhagen communication professor, described the market as “emerging” and “extremely uneven.”
He said publishers still face questions about how to price access for AI agents. He also argued that appearing inside AI products can still provide brand exposure.
Axios Chief Operating Officer Allison Murphy said the company’s concise format already works well for machine retrieval.
“Time is money for crawlers,” Murphy said. But she resisted describing AI itself as Axios’ new audience.
“It isn’t really AI as the audience,” she said. “It’s AI as a tool that helps us reach our audience.”
That distinction captures the experiment. Axios and Every are not replacing human readers with machines.
Instead, they are testing how AI agents might become another layer between publishers and the people consuming their journalism.
