Hi! This is Sergei.
This week Anthropic released its most powerful model yet — Mythos (Fable 5). At the same time, both Anthropic and OpenAI appear ready to cut prices significantly trying to steal users from each other.
That raises an interesting question: are we entering deeper the AI equivalent of the dot-com bubble?
For a while, it felt like building with AI was becoming more expensive as usage, context windows, and agent workflows grew. Now the biggest players seem willing to sacrifice margins to gain users and market share. And the bubble is getting bigger.
New on AI For Newsroom this week
Stories, guides, initiatives, and signals we surfaced in this issue.
How Generative AI Helped Two Newsrooms with Story Discovery
By Clare Spencer·Medium·Blog·Jun 12, 2026
How to enable self-service data analytics with Claude
Anthropic·Education·Jun 12, 2026
Game: Newsroom Tycoon. The Editor's Instinct
Ali Mahmood·Tools·Jun 12, 2026
Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in the Chicago Public Media Newsroom
Chicago Public Media·Jun 11, 2026
Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
The European Commission·Jun 11, 2026
Reuters and Time flip the script on AI bots with blocking whitelists
The Media Copilot·Jun 11, 2026
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
The Decoder·Jun 11, 2026
Fact laundering: AI research tools find facts and lose the source
By Danny Bellion·Velora.build·Blog·Jun 11, 2026
Newsroom-in-the-loop: what AI actually changes in editorial work
WAN-IFRA·Blog·Jun 10, 2026
Fact-checking: between efficiency and control
By Susanne Fengler·EJO·Blog·Jun 10, 2026
Five AI Assistants
General-Anzeiger·🇩🇪 Germany·journalism
Do better research with NotebookLM
By Trond Wuellner·Google·Blog·Jun 9, 2026
Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers
By Sara Guaglione·Digiday·Jun 9, 2026
Meet the journalists training the AI models that might replace them
By Gretel Kahn·Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism·Blog·Jun 8, 2026
Google Pinpoint, Explained
Wonder Tools·Education·Jun 8, 2026
🇳🇴 What happens to journalism when AI becomes the ecosystem?
AI & Media·Analysis·Jun 8, 2026
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