Weekly Digest # 149, 1 Nov 2025
News Integrity in the Age of AI: AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows.
News Integrity in the Age of AI: AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows.
This week's earnings reports from the US show that with the right focus, the Post can return to growth, and it's actually a pretty good time to be a premium news publisher.
The traditional economic bargain of the open web, where publishers provided content to search engines in exchange for traffic, is fundamentally broken. It needs a new economic model with collective licensing as a new economic layer for publishers and content creators.
As tokenization moves into a critical financial market infrastructure, it can signal a similar shift for decentralised content provenance. Platforms and publishers would move from using it as an optional add-on to making it the default plumbing they quietly rely on.
Traditional decision cycles that rely on reports, news coverage, or analyst opinions often result in a delayed response to significant change. The future sends warnings. Those who notice first get ahead.