Hidden AI in Newspapers

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November 03, 2025

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Dive into a revealing study from the University of Maryland showing a surprising amount of AI-written content in U.S. newspapers, often unnoticed by readers. It's fascinating how this trend is weaving AI into our daily news consumption.

Also, check out how Microsoft is leveraging AI to amp up its workforce and productivity post-layoffs, signaling big changes in workplace dynamics.

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University of Maryland Study Finds Hidden AI Use in U.S. Newspapers

  • Researchers used the Pangram AI detector across three datasets, reporting a false positive rate of just 0.001% for news content.

  • AI use is far higher in smaller local outlets (9.3%) than in large papers (1.7%), with state-level peaks in Maryland (16.5%), Alabama (13.9%), and Tennessee (13.6%).

  • Weather stories are most likely to be AI-generated (27.7%), followed by science and tech (16.1%) and health (11.7%), while war (4.3%) and crime (5.2%) are less affected.

  • Boone Newspapers shows over 20% AI use, and Advance Publications 13.4%, while Nash Holdings, Lee Enterprises, and Digital First stay below 2%, even as some sue AI firms for scraping content.

  • Among 45,000 op-eds from major papers between 2022 and 2025, AI use rose from 0.1% to 3.4%, with opinion pages 6.4× more likely to feature AI content and guest contributors using AI more than staff.

  • Only 5 of 100 flagged articles disclosed AI use, and just 7 of 100 newspapers allow it in public guidelines; some outlets with bans still published AI-generated pieces, including automated weather and advice columns, a fully AI-produced paper called The Argonaut, and one journalist reaching 90% AI-assisted output by 2025.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Microsoft Plans Hiring Growth with AI Leverage from OpenAI

Intelligence: Satya Nadella says Microsoft will grow its workforce after recent layoffs, using AI tools and workflows, especially through its partnership with OpenAI—to boost productivity and scale efficiently.

  • Microsoft’s headcount stayed flat at 228,000 in fiscal 2025 after layoffs totaling 15,000 across two rounds.

  • Nadella expects hiring to resume, with employees gaining leverage from AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot, calling this an “unlearning and learning” phase.

  • Microsoft is embedding AI across planning and execution using models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

  • One example: a networking leader built AI agents for fiber maintenance, reducing the need for additional hires.

  • The company reported 12% year-over-year revenue growth and its highest operating margin since 2002.

  • Amazon cut 14,000 corporate roles while competing with Microsoft to rent cloud infrastructure for AI, with both calling this AI wave the most transformative since the Internet.

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