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I’m in the Qantas first class lounge in Singapore enjoying some tranquillity after a manic yet insightful week in London discussing AI with the world’s top publishers.

Over seven days, I participated in 40 private sessions, keynoted three global conferences, and hosted two dinners with leading editors and media CEOs.

Debates weaved through the merits of training AIs, funding investigative, war and local reporting, new collaborations, and stress testing future-focused business models.

Reuters, The Associated Press, AFP, Netflix, the Guardian, the Independent, Daily Mail, News Corp, Dotdash Meredith, the EPA, and many more added their voices.

So did leading lights from Canada, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Norway, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Holland, Portugal, and my home country of Australia.

If we act on what we started, it may come to be remembered as the first truly meaningful steps for the greatest media companies to adapt to the AI era.

It also represented a personal first. After nine years…