It’s a peculiar contortion that AI has made wapo’s losses, suddenly, a bigger problem than they had been over the past decade. Context: wapo hasn’t been a viab

It’s a peculiar contortion that AI has made wapo’s losses, suddenly, a bigger problem than they had been over the past decade. Context: wapo hasn’t been a viable company for a while. It’s Bezos’ apparent-charity project which also effects a Ben-Franklin-owns-the-megaphone strategy of being a newspaper publisher, in DC and reporting on the US government. The US government pays AWS a lot of money. Why not just be candid and say you want to try AI technology for news reporting because you think it has a place in the world?