IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

Author: TWiT July 30, 2026 Duration: 2:08:48

Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this.

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  • Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'
  • AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
  • Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic
  • OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
  • A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
  • Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting U.S. AI
  • Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient"
  • Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear
  • The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection
  • Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
  • DeepMind paper says LLMs won't be good at scientific discovery: LLMs can't jump
  • Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models
  • An ESP32 based plane radar
  • The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
  • prompt-injection resumes
  • The McLuhan Marshalling Machine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Henry Blodget

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