Sundar Pichai has offered one of his clearest public accounts yet of how generative AI has forced Google to reorganise internally, rethink Search and confront growing tension with publishers whose businesses depend on referral traffic. Speaking to Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast in a conversation recorded after Google I/O 2026, the Alphabet chief executive described the period following ChatGPT’s arrival as requiring a wholesale organisational reset rather than a simple product update. Google had the underlying technology, he suggested, but not the structure to move fast enough. The interview showed Google openly acknowledging several pressures at once: that…
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Australia’s ABC has chosen Reuters executive Simon Robinson as its new director of news and current affairs, ending days of speculation after the broadcaster’s surprise leadership change. Robinson, currently deputy to Reuters’ editor-in-chief, will take up the post in September. The ABC said he would become its next Director of…
Three developments last week underscored how fragmented AI governance has become: CNN sued Perplexity AI over alleged copying of its journalism; OpenAI published a governance framework tied to emerging EU and California rules; and the legal battle over state AI regulation in the US continued to intensify. The disputes show…
Pope Leo XIV has thrust the Vatican into the centre of the global debate over artificial intelligence, using his first encyclical to argue that the technology must be governed by law, oversight and human judgement rather than left to market forces or military competition. Entitled Magnifica humanitas — “Magnificent Humanity”…
Gary Lineker’s media company is expanding beyond podcast production after helping launch Goalhanger Ventures, a new investment arm aimed at backing creator-led media businesses. The move marks a broader shift for Goalhanger as it seeks to build influence across the wider creator economy, not just podcasting. The company has grown…
Jeff Bezos sometimes makes agreeing with him very difficult. This was the case earlier this week when he said in an interview with CNBC that President Donald Trump was “more mature” in his second term than his first and that Amazon’s commission of the Melania documentary was in no way…
News podcasting is moving decisively beyond the old audio-only model, with video, personality-led chat shows and creator-style distribution reshaping how publishers make, package and monetise their work, according to a new Reuters Institute report by Nic Newman. The study, The Changing Shape and New Economics of News Podcasting, argues that…
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Pope Leo XIV has issued an appeal to the global news industry to put truth before clicks, warning that sensationalism undermines public trust and corrodes democracy. Speaking at a conference organised by Minds International – a coalition that includes major news agencies such as Reuters – the Pope urged journalists to resist…
Influencers, not journalists or politicians, drove nearly half of Canada’s online political conversation during this spring’s federal election, according to new research. The report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN), coordinated by McGill University and the University of Toronto’s Media Ecosystem Observatory, found that influencers accounted for 47…
Michael Miller, executive chairman of News Corp Australia, has launched a fierce attack on social media platforms, accusing them of eroding social cohesion and fuelling harm across communities. Speaking at the Melbourne Press Club, he described them as “the true monsters at our gates,” blaming their algorithms for spreading misinformation…
British philanthropist Lynn Forester de Rothschild is preparing to sell her family’s entire 26.7 per cent stake in The Economist Group, in what would be the most significant ownership shift for the publisher in a decade. The holding includes around 20 per cent of the voting shares – the maximum…
Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, has been appointed editor-in-chief of CBS News following Paramount Skydance’s $150 million acquisition of her digital media platform. Weiss, 41, will report directly to David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance. The newly created role marks a major shift in the network’s leadership and…
Matt Murray, executive editor of The Washington Post since June 2024, has insisted that owner Jeff Bezos has shown “zero meddling” in the newsroom’s operations during what he calls a “massive transformation” of the newspaper. In a rare interview with the newsletter Status, Murray said the Post remains committed to…
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