Europe’s largest publisher Axel Springer mandates AI use in newsrooms: ‘You only have to explain if you didn’t’

July 18, 2025

“Nobody in the company has to explain in the company why she or he is using AI to do something — whether to prepare a presentation or analyze a document,” he (CEO Mathias Döpfner said. “You only have to explain if you didn’t use AI. That’s really something you have to explain because that shouldn’t happen…