BBC director-general Tim Davie has revealed plans to expand the Local Democracy Reporting Service outside of its current focus on local authorities.In a speech in Salford on Wednesday, Davie said the BBC wants to expand the scheme to include...
When generative AI first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, news companies around the world scrambled to respond. Many raced to build and release AI-powered tools, but The Guardian resisted the urge to release “something very shiny” right...
CNN is getting ready to launch a streaming service. Again.Three years after CNN’s parent company killed the hotly anticipated (and very expensive) CNN+ service shortly after it was released, the news network will introduce a new streaming product this...
Time plans to launch a new editorial vertical called Time Longevity, dedicated to the coverage of science, health, business, tech and policy innovations that address aging and the human lifespan, its CEO Jess Sibley and editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs told...
Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible is working with US-based book publishers to convert print and e-books into artificial intelligence-voiced audiobooks, helping to expand its catalog particularly in non-English speaking markets.“Every book deserves to be heard in audio,” Bob Carrigan, chief executive...
Google considered allowing publishers to opt out of their data being used for AI grounding and still appear in search results but described it as a “hard red line”.New documents disclosed in the remedies portion of an antitrust trial...
On a cold evening in March, a month and a half into the second Trump Administration, a crowd gathered in the Terrace Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. Warren Buffett, the billionaire...
Google considered allowing publishers to opt out of their data being used for AI grounding and still appear in search results but described it as a “hard red line”.New documents disclosed in the remedies portion of an antitrust trial...
If you’re interested in AI and the future of news, you will have heard of Nikita Roy. This data scientist, journalist and AI expert has been explaining how news organisations are using AI in her popular podcast Newsroom Robots...
For centuries, the ritual of the papal conclave — the group of 135 red-robed cardinals who cast their votes for a new pope under Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment — has remained behind locked doors. Their task is monumental: to...
