Welcome to AI Papers Explained, an experiment in using AI to help translate the latest AI research into plain language for journalists and technologists (we're getting meta). We're scanning for papers on arXiv, an open-access repository where researchers share preprints — papers that haven't yet gone through formal peer review. These summaries are AI-generated and lightly...

This is a guest post by Andrew Zigler, whose project was selected as the winner of the Hacks/Hackers AI hackathon with The Atlantic and Infactory in January 2026. We asked him to write about his work and approach to using AI as a developer.

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The Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit is May 13–14 in Baltimore — just six weeks away. If you’re working at the intersection of AI and journalism, this is the event to be at. Speakers from The New York Times, ProPublica, CNN, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, SPIEGEL and more will share how they’re actually building and governing AI in their newsrooms — from Pro...

The Hacks/Hackers Newsroom AI Lab is welcoming its third cohort of newsroom partners: Deep South Today, the San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol and Tradeoffs.

The Lab pairs small and mid-sized newsrooms with technical advisors for three-month engagements. The goal is less about shipping a specific tool and more about helping teams figure out what to build and why. Each cohor...

This article was originally published by The Poynter Institute. Poynter is Hacks/Hackers’ partner on AI ethics, governance and literacy, and is sponsoring the Govern track at our