newsroom are so experiment with AI for several years now, but, for the most part, those efforts have been mere experiments. A relatively unknown startup, Symbolic.ai, wants to change that, and that’s signed a major agreement With News Corp, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.
News Corp, whose major properties include MarketWatch, the New York Post and WSJ, is set to begin using Symbolic’s AI platform with its financial news hub Dow Jones Newswires.
Symbolic.ai, founded by former eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica co-founder John Stokes, says its AI platform can “assist in the production of quality journalism and content” and that its tools have also delivered “up to 90% productivity gains for complex research tasks.” The platform is designed to make editorial workflows more efficient, offering improvements in areas such as newsletter creation, audio transcription, fact-checking, “headline optimization,” SEO advice, and more.
In general, News Corp has shown a willingness to integrate AI into its media operations. Company signed in 2024 a multi-year partnership With OpenAI, in which it will license its content to the AI company. Last November, the media group indicated that it was considering branching outand licensing its content to other AI companies.
