Watch demos from our latest vibe coding event, plus LA and NY in-person AI x journalism events
Six people demoed tools they built with AI, plus standard registration for Los Angeles AI x Visual Journalism Forum ends Aug. 15.
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Our AI x Visual Journalism program, plus pitch a vibe coding demo
Early-bird ends Aug. 15; and we're taking pitches for a vibe coding show and tell on Aug. 13.
Next week: AI Real Talk with Pangram CEO; plus new AI x Investigative Forum @ The New York Times
Register for our July 9 AI Real Talk on spotting AI slop with Pangram's CEO, plus AI x Investigative Journalism Forum at The New York Times, our latest AI Papers Explained, links and jobs
Proof beats prose
Given the same spreadsheet, an AI wrote the story that showed where every number came from. Readers preferred it to the human version.
Join us for the AI x Visual Journalism Forum in LA
Registration is live for our forum with Arizona State University at their Los Angeles campus, plus how AI x Journalism Summit ideas are spreading
We made our site readable for AI agents: Here's the playbook
How we added agent-friendly features to Hacks/Hackers, plus where AI chatbots get the news wrong, new reads, events and jobs
How we made our site more readable for AI agents and how you can too
Features for humans using AI agents and the AI agents themselves, including "ask" AI buttons and an MCP server
AI chatbots right about daily news nearly all the time, but fail badly when users slip wrong details into chats
Top AI platforms nail same-day news questions over 95% of the time. Slip a wrong detail into the question and GPT-5 falls to 19%. A new Stanford evaluation maps the failure patterns.
AI x Journalism Summit takeaways: The room wasn't sad. It was ready
Bookend takes on the summit, plus reads, events and jobs
The Room Wasn't Sad. It Was Ready.
Why the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit is different from other journalism conferences and why that's a good thing