Hello, this is Sergei!
Last week I've done a lot of extra research to find even more examples of AI implementations. So now we have more then 1000 of them. Also I've added more then 50 new AI policies (by the way, check this The AImpactful AI Governance Builder tool — very interesting initiative from Branislava Lovre). And, of course, all of these additions — along with our news, resources, tools, and everything else in the database — are available through MCP. You can ask questions, generate reports, run research, and explore the data however you like. I've also updated our 'How Newsrooms Use AI' report. Have a look.
Quite a busy week, right?
As to interesting reading — Mozilla's report about the state of open source AI looks great. I’m increasingly convinced that open-source LLMs will play a major role in the future of news media: they’re becoming more powerful, secure, and affordable. I’ve been experimenting with them extensively, and for the vast majority of newsroom tasks, they’re already more than capable. Commercial models still have a clear advantages in generating images, video, and audio. But I don’t think that’s where AI will create the biggest impact for journalism. The real opportunity is AI that helps journalists work better, supports newsroom management, and makes sense of data. That’s where I believe the biggest breakthroughs will come from.
And by the way here is my AI stack based on open source LLMs that had been stable for year already and helps me to do all of my tasks.
Cursor Pro — 20 euros / month. The biggest part of my AI costs. Code, research, analytics, automation.
OpenCode — free (once I hit the limits with Cursor Pro plan I just switch to OpenCode — here is my setup).
Groq models — 5-10 euros / month (Groq covers 80% of my AI needs for all my activities and projects like aifornewsroom.in, sevenly.in).
Mistral — 2-3 euro per month (not every month, occasionally).
Claude (chat) — free version. ChatGPT — free version.
New on AI For Newsroom this week
Stories, guides, initiatives, and signals we surfaced in this issue.
Die Zeit's "Nazi search engine"
Why AI agents might finally be the perfect micro-payers
We are not alone
How to develop AI guidelines.
AI Governance Builder
Germany Says Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity AI Subject To Media Laws
AP joins SPUR as publishers build a telemetry standard to track AI content use
We've updated our "How Newsrooms Are Using AI" report adding 1000 initiatives
The state of open source AI
Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI)
MediaScoper
Observatorul de Nord's Editorial Assistant
AI in Journalism: The Newsroom That Ate Itself
He’s found 15,000+ fake AI news sites. Here’s what you need to know
AI shows promise in the fight against fake news
Demystifying AI for News Publishers: Liquid Content
Primary Index
Signària
AI Policy
Rethinking European media infrastructures
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