Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, pitching frontier work at half the price
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, claiming top scores on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while keeping the same price as its predecessor.
newsroom automation
Reuters editor-in-chief says AI should push young reporters back into the field
Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni says AI can take over entry-level newsroom tasks so young reporters focus on reporting.
beehiiv expands beyond newsletters With AI and ad tools
beehiiv rolled out Community, an AI operator called Copilot, programmatic newsletter ads and a new visual editor at its Summer Release Event.
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.
Mediahuis builds AI agent pipeline for routine news reporting
The European publisher is testing interconnected AI tools to automate first-line news and free up human reporters.
Cleveland editor defends AI-written stories, sparks debate about reporting vs. writing
A Cleveland newsroom's decision to have AI write story drafts while reporters focus solely on gathering information has reignited the debate over AI's role in journalism.
A reporter spent 20 hours building an AI to replace herself. It almost worked
Platformer journalist Ella Markianos created "Claudella" to test whether AI could do her job — and discovered it already can do much of it.
CUNY picks 23 global news leaders for AI journalism cohort
The program focuses on ethical frameworks and strategic decision-making as AI embeds itself in newsrooms.
Clawdbot is the self-hosted AI assistant going viral among power users
The open-source project lets users build a "Jarvis-style" agent that lives in their messaging apps.
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