New York Times among surge of sign-ups to publisher AI coalition SPUR

The New York Times is part of an expansion of the SPUR coalition of publishers seeking to agree common standards for AI licensing deals.

[Resource] LLM Wiki v2

LLM wiki on Google’s Open Knowledge Format: Librarian, Researcher, CROW typed-classifier routing, web UI, local llm support - crow-hq/llm-wiki-v2

Introducing Mistral Large 4 | Mistral

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.

The idiot’s case for taxing AI to subsidize human journalists and scientists

AI policy is very complicated. What if one part of it were simple?

Why news publishers need to focus on AI agents more than scrapers

AI assistants that spend their owners’ money have arrived. So have the first tools to track how AI uses news. Publishers who start tracking now will have something to sell – and proof when their content is stolen.

USA Today Files $250M Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI

USA Today Co. has joined the long roster of media organizations suing OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, Forbes reports. The complaint accuses OpenAI of illegally copying hundreds of thousands of articles from 19 publications with the purpose of training its models and repackage these journalistic efforts for ChatGPT users, USA Today asserts.

How I built my personal AI assistant office, working in media (pros and cons)

AI, AI assistant, personal AI assistant, tekoäly, tekoälyassistentti, AI-assari. Media. Uutismedia.

[Initiative] Kielikaveri

AI is an essential part of everyday journalism at Alma Media. More than 40 editorial tools support journalists’ work, from newsgathering to publication. The tools have been developed by Alma News

The Agent Layer: My Keynote at Mediatech Hub Conference 2026

I was invited to speak at the Mediatech Hub Conference in Babelsberg, Potsdam. Here’s my script, more or less what I said on stage, and some links. Hi, thanks you for having me. Let’s start with a shoutout: Next week, “Droneland” starts streaming on Telekom’s MagentaTV. It’s set in a near future where artificial intelligence

Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots

Google has updated its guidelines to forbid the use of fake bylines, AI-generated headshots, and other acts of “deception.”

[Resource] AI & Journalism Explorer Dashboard

Can I write with AI and still call it my own?

A small experiment with dictation, research, editing, and keeping hold of my own voice.

SPUR releases AI content tracking standard, invites tech firms to advisory board

SPUR released a standard for tracking how AI systems retrieve, use and cite publisher content, inviting major tech firms to an advisory board.

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI’s chatbot isn’t just imitating the magazine’s style. It’s also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

Exclusive: AI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalism

A Silicon Valley nonprofit close to the AI safety movement is funding coverage of artificial intelligence.

Breaking News Out of the Filter Bubble: Generative AI Search Diversifies Collective Attention and Raises Shared Information Consumption

Generative AI search and AI overviews are transforming access to information and news, renewing concerns that readers will encounter a narrower range of topics and have less in common. We examine these concerns via a randomized field experiment with 37,561 readers at The Washington Post. Both groups searched the same archive, but treatment readers also received AI answers with article citations above conventional results.

[Initiative] Lisa AI

Un programa de noticias en audio de 10 minutos. Cada hecho, cruzado entre los medios que lo cubrieron. Dos ediciones por día.

What AI detectors are for? And how should newsrooms use them?

The most recent case involving a bestselling novel forces us to decide what we need AI detectors for, and how to cover such a case.

Penske AI Overviews lawsuit dismissed because ‘no formal bargain’ struck with Google

A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Penske Media against Google over the loss of traffic and revenue as a result of AI Overviews.

The Visa Pulse — Immigration Policy, Explained

Plain-language coverage of U.S. immigration policy changes for F-1 students, H-1B workers, and visa holders.

[News] Small Decisions, Fast

In this issue: A model that cannot write essays, and why that’s the point. One in five UK adults follow the news with AI. Prisa Media’s AI director on cognitive delegation. Plus: The “xxx” trick that made me want to write with AI.

[Initiative] The Epstein Files Engine

On Jan. 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice released a mixed-media collection concerning Jeffrey Epstein, including about three million pages of PDFs. We describe the Epstein Files Engine, an A.I. agent The New York Times deployed to investigate the files. The Engine translated reporter questions into Google BigQuery SQL queries across three corpora: Epstein-related releases, the Times’s archive and external, Epstein-related news headlines. It used an LLM to plan queries and returned citation-rich answers a reporter could verify and trust.

Fake / Real — Fact-check links with JEV

Check public articles and posts with JEV-powered evidence review. Read REAL or FAKE findings, cited sources and clear limits. Three free checks a day.

LMA opens applications for newsrooms to join the AI Growth Lab

(September 2026) — Local media companies are invited to apply to join the AI Growth Lab to acquire practical strategies and hands-on experience in integrating artificial intelligence into their news organizations. Led by Local Media Association in partnership with Google, this six-month initiative is designed to give newsrooms a comprehensive understanding of AI tools and

[Resource] Check what your site tells AI crawlers

Paste a domain and see which of 171 AI crawlers it blocks, how that compares to 208 news titles in 17 countries, and which lines to add.

[News] Analysis: International news sites still block the bots from 2023

This topic could be a bit nerdy for some, but those interested in journalism and copyright might want to read a bit further. For a couple of years now I’ve been fascinated by the rise of an army of AI-bots scouring journalism for high-quality information.