On its surface, the definition of a paywall is straightforward: A digital popup that blocks you from reading the story you clicked on unless you pay up.But the catch-all term “paywall” conceals several smaller decisions that go into designing...
In 2023, Gannett was hilariously forced to pause a service promising to harness artificial intelligence to write high school sports stories when corny phrases like “close encounters of the athletic kind” began appearing in coverage across the country. There was...
Leading artificial intelligence assistants create distortions, factual inaccuracies and misleading content in response to questions about news and current affairs, research has found.More than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged to...
BuzzFeed, the media site known for its celebrity news and quizzes, announced on Tuesday that it’s developing its own social media platform, in a move to counter the current negativity on the internet. Semafor first reported BuzzFeed’s plan for...
If there was any doubt before, this seals it: YouTube is in the TV business.According to Neal Mohan, YouTube’s CEO, TV screens have officially overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.” In other words,...
After months of development and testing, Der Spiegel launched a new audio and video podcast last summer. Shortcut looks for surprising perspectives on current topics that move people and offers shortcuts to understanding the world.Hosts Maximilian Sepp and Regina...
The Washington Post’s reporting on chaos inside the federal government has driven a recovery in online traffic that could help ease the blow of last year’s massive subscription loss. The week of Jan. 27 saw the organization’s biggest audience...
A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago.Musk and his own AI startup,...
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have announced the launch of the Knight Communities Network, a new community of practice to support local journalism funders working to build sustainable news ecosystems...
There have been a raft of announcements about AI agents. Let’s start with the basicsAccording to ChatGPT: “AI agents are intelligent systems that can perceive their environment, process information, make decisions, and take actions autonomously. Unlike simple automation tools, AI agents can...
