AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work
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Publishers prepare to be “squeezed” by AI and creators in 2026
Newsrooms will prioritize on-the-ground reporting, YouTube, and something called “liquid content” this year, according to a global survey of news executives.
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The global association of news publishers WAN-IFRA and CMA Media, media group owned by French tycoon Rodolphe Saadé, aim to make their world congress in Marseille this June a “New Deal” between medias, Big Tech, and political authorities about future of Journalism
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Business Insider Lays Off 21% of Staff, Citing 'Traffic Sensitivity'
The publisher is eliminating coverage verticals, largely exiting commerce, launching events, and embracing AI
By @adweek.bsky.social
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The New York Times and Amazon have announced a multi-year licensing agreement that will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences
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French website Maddyness partners with Perplexity: What’s changing on his site
Maddyness has entered into a strategic partnership with Perplexity to give its readers access to the full potential of this generative AI tool.
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Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data
Reddit’s lawsuit makes it the first Big Tech company to legally challenge an AI model provider over its training data practices, joining a litany of publishers
By @techcrunch.com
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The Great Decoupling Of Google Search - Clicks vs Impressions
Posting screenshots of their Google Search Console performance reports that show how clicks from Google start to drop, where impressions stay the same or go higher
By @searchengineland.bsky.social
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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
By @axios.com
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Into Washington Post: Office of the CTO Announces Sam Han as Chief AI Officer and Creation of WP Incubator
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French newspaper Ouest-France tests AI chatbot on his content for one week for car championship « 24h du Mans », by audio and text
French release
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Chatbot
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Three newsrooms on generating AI summaries for news
“Summaries aren’t a replacement for journalism: they can’t exist without it.” The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News on what they’ve learned rolling out AI-powered summaries.
By @niemanlab.org
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Politico’s AI tool spits out made-up slop, union says
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By @semafor.com
AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news
Four major AI chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories
The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news
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New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools
The NYT is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools could eventually write social copy, SEO headlines, and some code.
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EU mobilizes $200 billion in AI race against US and China
This announcement follows French President Emmanuel Macron saying that €109 billion (around $112 billion) will be invested into AI in France
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The Guardian is partnering with OpenAI
The deal will see reporting from The Guardian appear as news source within ChatGPT, alongside article extracts and summaries
OpenAI provides the Guardian with access to ChatGPT Enterprise to develop products, features, tools
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In France, 6 local media groups and the national daily Libération, which publishes a total of 40 newspapers, are asking the courts to block a website which uses AI to steal their online articles and automatically reproduce them on its own site previously unknown
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AI Action Summit: The Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) has led and coordinated the production of the first mapping of AI-related issues and uses in journalism, in partnership with French public audiovisual media
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Paris 2025 AI Action Summit : a International charter on ‘Culture and Innovation’ to sauvegarde copyright
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France and UAE Forge Landmark AI Partnership with $30-50 Billion Data Center Investment
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Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Mistral AI have formed a partnership that will provide Mistral's conversational AI assistant, Le Chat, with access to the full range of AFP's text stories
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French Mistral AI : his latest "le Chat", a comprehensive AI assistant, introducing Pro and Team tiers of service
And now, le Chat is available "on iOS, Android, and soon, on private infrastructure for businesses"
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Personalizing Newsletter Headlines: Testing LLMs Against Human Editors
Acontrolled study shows readers prefer AI-generated headlines 62% of the time — while keeping core editorial decisions in human hands
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Apple said it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by AI
« A software update will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided by Apple Intelligence »
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Apple is facing calls to withdraw its controversial AI feature that has generated inaccurate news alerts
The product is meant to summarise breaking news notifications and has invented entirely false claims
The BBC first complained to the tech giant
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Google unveils an AI-powered TV that summarizes the news for you at CES 2025
By asking Gemini to play your “News Brief,” the AI assistant will scrape news stories from across the internet and YouTube video headlines posted by trusted news channels
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How The New York Times Incorporates Editorial Judgement in Algorithms to Curate Home Screen Content
The Times has been actively developing and testing editorially-driven algorithms to assist in curating home page content.
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Use cases: Nordic newsrooms pioneered AI independently of Big Tech
By Reuters Institute
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US: Amazon is reaching out to news publishers about opportunities to license their content for the next generation of Amazon's Alexa voice assistant, slated to debut next year
By Axios
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