A new report identifies dozens of local news sources, from journalism outlets to church newsletters, to understand what really powers an information ecosystem.
Google’s attempts to repackage news are encroaching on publishers. As a cofounder of WTF Is SEO?, an industry newsletter, has observed: “A growing sentiment is that Google is not a partner but a competitor.”
Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.”
Polymarket and Kalshi are quickly making deals with news publishers, with potential implications for the regulation of prediction markets. It’s unclear how journalism wins.