In our analysis of conflicts of interest in PubMed, we used an LLM to trace relationships between academics and companies – helping us discover more ties.

The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

Why AI platforms should be accountable for misrepresenting breaking news

When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.

Why AI platforms should be accountable for misrepresenting breaking news

Why AI platforms should be accountable for misrepresenting breaking news

Announcing a new tool to keep track of disputes and deals between news publishers and AI companies.

A tracker monitoring developments between news publishers and AI companies—including lawsuits, deals, and grants—based on publicly available information.

The performance tests used by AI companies don’t measure what matters in the newsroom.

“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”

“You don't know when it's just making stuff up.”

Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure ...

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.

As AI adoption accelerates, authors have growing concerns over maintaining control of their own work that may reduce their willingness to share their research openly. Publisher licensing deals with AI...

<p>Download the PDF here. This research is generously funded by the Tow Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Introduction Early in our first interview, a veteran news exec...

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism interviewed news and tech industry representatives about AI’s impact on platforms and publishers. They expressed some hope and a lot of trepidation.

Google and OpenAI want Trump to open up the rules. News publishers have some thoughts.

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

The cost-cutting group removed hundreds of contracts from its “wall of receipts,” added back many of them, and inflated savings values.

The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling t...