Why liquid content is harder than it looks
AI can pour any story into any format. The hard parts come after the pour.
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Journalists are opening up about AI, but one mistake shows how fragile that progress is
As prominent journalists go public with their AI workflows, a plagiarism scandal at The New York Times reveals how quickly momentum can reverse
UK and US financial regulators hold emergency meetings over Anthropic’s Claude Mythos
An unreleased Anthropic model that found thousands of vulnerabilities in major operating systems has triggered emergency briefings from London to Washington.
AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.
New York Times cuts ties with freelancer over AI-assisted book review
Author-journalist Alex Preston admitted to using an AI tool that drew on a Guardian review without attribution.
Wikipedia bans AI-generated text from its 7.1 million articles
Volunteer editors voted 44–2 to keep bot-written content off the open web's most-linked encyclopedia.
NewsGuard and Pangram are building an AI slop detector as content farms multiply
NewsGuard has flagged 3,000+ AI content farms and is now using AI itself to fight them.
The 2026 journalism layoff wave is already worse than last year — and it’s only March
From the Washington Post to Nexstar to the New York Daily News, newsrooms are cutting at a pace that suggests a structural shift, not a cyclical correction.
What critics get wrong about Cleveland.com’s AI rewrite experiment
The Cleveland Plain Dealer isn’t “replacing reporters with AI” so much as separating reporting from writing. That still raises hard questions.
A columnist asked Gemini to write his column. The result was good, and that’s the problem
Neil Steinberg’s annual AI column experiment found Gemini 3.0 nailing his voice while casually inventing a scene that never happened.
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