We made our site readable for AI agents: Here's the playbook

We made hackshackers.com readable for AI agents. Here’s how.

More and more, the first visitor to your site isn’t a person. It’s an agent fetching, summarizing and citing your work on someone’s behalf. That shifts the question from how your page looks to human eyes, to whether a machine can parse it. So we added a handful of features to make Hacks/Hackers easier for agents to use: “Ask AI” buttons on our posts, an MCP server that lets any AI assistant query our archive directly, and structural tweaks that help agents find and cite what we publish. None of it required a platform migration or a big budget, and we wrote up what we changed so you can do the same.

AI Papers Explained: AI chatbots get the news right, until you feed them a wrong detail

Ask a top AI assistant about same-day news and it answers accurately more than 95% of the time. But a new Stanford evaluation found that slipping a false premise into the question —like a wrong name or a date that never happened — sends accuracy into freefall. The models tend to accept the bad detail and build on it instead of correcting it. The study maps where that breakdown happens and why it matters as more readers make chatbots their first stop for the news.

Worth a read

• Google’s agentic web stack takes shape, but publisher economics remain unresolved (Agentic Web) — who gets paid when agents use the web.
• The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers in a “double bind” (Nieman Lab)
• A.I., Journalism and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square (The New York Times Company) — A.G. Sulzberger’s case that AI companies are violating settled law.
• Nordic AI in Media Summit 2026: A deep look at how AI is about to revolutionise the news ecosystem (Reuters Institute)
• Domain expertise has always been the real moat (Aaron Brethorst) — the case that subject knowledge, not AI tooling, is the durable edge.

Upcoming events

• Aug 25–26, Los Angeles: Hacks/Hackers Visual AI x Journalism Forum with ASU (save the date)
• Sept 25, NYC: Hacks/Hackers AI x Investigative Journalism event with The New York Times (save the date)
• June 19–21, Tbilisi: ZEG Storytelling Festival
• June 23, Bonn: DW Global Media Forum
• Sept 21, Madrid: INMA Media Innovation Week

Jobs

• Editor, Audience — A.I. and Emerging Platforms, The New York Times (New York, NY)
• Executive Producer, Enterprise Video, The Wall Street Journal (US)
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• Writer, Our World in Data (Remote)
• Audience Lead, Food and Environment Reporting Network (New York)
• News Director, Community Radio for Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO)
• Science & Frontier AI Research, Writer/Communicator, Google DeepMind (London, UK)
• Communications Manager, Enterprise, Anthropic (San Francisco, CA / New York, NY)
• Head of Copy & Content, Creative Studio, Anthropic (New York, NY / San Francisco, CA)