Signal & Noise

Earlier this year, the Washington Post announced it would cut roughly thirty percent of its workforce, citing AI as part of the reason. Let that land for a second. One of the most storied newsrooms in American journalism, the paper that broke Watergate, is slashing nearly a third of its staff, and a...

Three weeks ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer quietly laid off its entire archive research team. Twelve people, most of them with more than a decade at the paper, replaced by an internal retrieval system built on top of a fine-tuned large language model. The system can surface any story from 1829 to ye...