Fake news at machine speed: inside AI’s impact on media trust
Poynter’s Alex Mahadevan explains how newsrooms can use AI without losing the fundamentals of verification, context, and accountability.
Former NPR host sues Google, claims NotebookLM cloned his voice without permission
David Greene says an AI forensic analysis found his voice was used to train the podcast tool.
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI to build ‘next generation of personal agents’
The viral open-source AI assistant will become a foundation project that OpenAI continues to support.
How the Star Tribune turned high school sports traffic into subscription revenue
By consolidating 17 decentralized high school sports websites into a single platform, the Star Tribune created subscription revenue that outperforms general news coverage by 4x
European publishers sue Google over AI training on news articles
Traffic to publisher websites has dropped 33 percent since Google started using their content to train AI.
Cloudflare now converts web pages to markdown for AI agents
Cloudflare launched a feature that automatically converts HTML pages to markdown when AI agents request them, potentially changing how newsrooms publish content for AI-powered search and discovery.
Comparing Admiral, BlueConic, and Permutive for first-party data collection
How publishers should choose between a $50/month data collection tool and enterprise CDPs that cost 100x more.
What you need to know about Admiral’s data security
Before you trust Admiral with visitor email addresses and behavioral data, here's what to check about encryption, access controls, and compliance certifications.
McClatchy reporters’ union pushes back on AI-generated content
The company has been using AI to create listicle-style roundups of existing stories without reporter input.
Washington Post data journalist uses Claude Code to consolidate federal AI inventory
Kevin Schaul saved days of manual work by having AI write auditable code to wrangle disparate government datasets.
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