(I think trying to imagine a positive vision for AI and news is important - if journalists and the news industry does not offer a take on what good looks like, much of the public may simply assume that news in an ever-more AI-mediated environment is cheap sh*t, and act accordingly.)
"I will try to imagine a positive future for news in a world of ubiquitous AI. I will try to be relentlessly ‘user-centric’, prioritizing individual consumers in their lives"
"The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information." @felixsimon.bsky.social has written about our recent report, including rapid growth in how many (and how) people use generative AI to get information www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...
"Russia is moving, no, running towards an inside-net. Not only access to news and information, but even to people-to people communication with those from abroad, is shrinking day by day." Read Daria Dergacheva in Global Voices globalvoices.org/2025/10/07/i...
How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news? These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸
Finally, as search engines increasingly integrate AI generated answers, we asked about trust in these – the trust scores are high across the board, with higher net positives than any of the standalone tools.
Asked whether they trust different AI tools, the picture is very differentiated, with net positive trust scores for e.g. ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, but negatives for those that are seen as part of various social media companies 2/3
How do people think different sectors’ use of generative AI will change their experience of interacting with them?
More optimists than pessimists for e.g. science and search engines, but more pessimists than optimists for news media, government, and – especially – politicians 1/3
"Time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline" John Burn-Murdoch notes.
For those interested in screen use in a broader sense, worth comparing to e.g. Ofcom figures on TV/video watching as a reminder of just how much time most of us spend with the big screen.
AI capex investment follows "patterns from the introduction of nearly all general-purpose technologies", which delivered real change even as "bubbles burst either due to regulation, increased competition, or the buyers of the products being unwilling, or unable, to sustain" demand on.ft.com/46QMGW4
Sora, the new linked social app announced alongside the launch of Sora 2 generator, will obviously have nowhere near that user base initially, but sounds like something that will clearly qualify as a platform that disseminates information to the public? techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/o... 2/2
When will OpenAI have one or more services covered by the EU's Digital Services Act?
ChatGPT search will almost certainly have 45+ million monthly users next time they report, so could jump straight into Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) category www.mlex.com/mlex/artific... 1/2
Spent all day in Brussels discussing DSA, systemic risks, mitigation measures, and where news media fits in to all of it. Consistently impressed by the thoughtful professionalism of the civil servants I meet and encouraged by the commitment of the MEPs who care about these issues
Disney/ABC caved and settled in December, Meta in January, X in February, Paramount/CBS in July, and now in September YouTube too. www.ft.com/content/8084...
"If we’re going to have a good relationship going forward, you can’t have legislation that punishes companies from . . . your ally" US Ambassador to the EU says.
They don't like DSA, DMA, and AI Act. Let's see how they react to "Buy European" clauses www.ft.com/content/b6d9...
"As journalists, we must believe that there are more people who want information than the opposite", says Christian Jensen. "That there are more people who want the truth than the opposite". politiken.dk/del/SDfenpAE...
Most creators "never promised to do journalism, and that is not the expectation among the citizens who choose to follow them". The public increasingly "just want to hear it from the horse's own mouth."
"Public service loses its impact if we speak to the masses but do not reach the individual. We must do away with one of the most persistent misconceptions: that personalization and public service should be opposites." (My translation) politiken.dk/debat/kronik...
"When right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk was shot [the] next thing that followed was typical of any tragedy these days: a whirlwind of online misinformation. Except, it also included AI-generated false claims" from e.g. Grok, Google AI Overviews www.techpolicy.press/what-does-it...
"Today," New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says, "we’re seeing [the anti-press playbook] deployed in the United States, a country long synonymous with press freedom."
