Five ways AI will reshape the media in 2026
As AI adoption accelerates, publishers face a volatile mix of legal battles, product bets, and renewed pressure to prove what only humans can do.
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OpenAI launches free AI training academy for newsrooms
New hub offers on-demand courses and playbooks for journalists.
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Disney bets $1 billion on OpenAI’s Sora
Disney becomes Sora’s first big licensing partner, turning its IP into AI fuel while still fighting over how AI trains.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 following internal ‘code red’ scramble
The update claims to outperform human professionals on 70% of knowledge work tasks while completing them 11 times faster.
Adobe brings Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat to ChatGPT’s 800 million users
The creative software giant is betting that conversational AI will open its tools to people who've never touched photo editing software.