In early August, Brian Chau launched an interesting experiment in investigative journalism in the form of Effort News (see his launch thread on Twitter). While he says the stories are human-written, the investigations underlying them are largely performed by AI agents pointed at large financial databases. As Lyman Stone on pointed out on Twitter, one of the coolest things they do is publish their null results: investigations that failed to turn up anything newsworthy.
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