A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
Companies Join Forces to Enrich OpenAI’s Generative AI Products and Platforms with Premium Journalism
OpenAI, AIRPPU, and WAN-IFRA have launched an AI program aimed at supporting Ukrainian news organizations. The initiative focuses on strengthening innovation, resilience, and independent journalism within Ukraine's media landscape.
The Epstein Files Engine is an AI agent developed by the New York Times to help journalists investigate a massive mixed‑media collection released by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 30, 2026, which contains about three million pages of PDFs related to Jeffrey Epstein. The Engine translates reporter questions into Google BigQuery SQL queries across three corpora—Epstein‑related releases, the Times’s archive, and external Epstein‑related news headlines—using an LLM to plan queries and return citation‑rich answers that reporters can verify. Over 100 journalists used the Engine, contributing to at least 20 published stories, and the system includes a Diff method for text‑and‑visual duplicate matching to surface genuinely new information.
By Duy K. Nguyen, Teresa Mondr\'ia Terol, Dylan Freedman, Zach Seward
In this Executive Function series from OpenAI, discover how CNA is transforming its newsroom with AI. Editor-in-Chief Walter Fernandez shares insights on AI adoption, culture, and the future of journalism.
The article reviews two decades of empirical research on artificial intelligence in media, highlighting how AI will continuously reshape journalistic work. It identifies key social and epistemological challenges, such as increased reliance on tech platforms, threats to editorial independence, and journalists’ ambivalence between job security and creative liberation. The study argues that understanding AI’s impact on audiences and journalists is essential for guiding its responsible use in journalism.
By Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Koldobika Meso-Ayerdi, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Javier D\'iaz-Noci
OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a new learning hub built with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to help newsrooms use AI effectively. The Academy offers training, practical use cases, and responsible-use guidance to support journalists, editors, and publishers as they adopt AI in their reporting and operations.
arXiv:2606. 13829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We can do more than defend science from a flood of AI-assisted papers.
By Gianfranco Bertone
Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at scale.
Introducing Co-Scientist, a collaborative AI partner built with Gemini to help researchers accelerate scientific breakthroughs.
We will also collaborate on new AI experiences for FT readers.