A University of Sydney audit has found that Microsoft’s Copilot routinely sidelines Australian journalism in its AI‑generated news summaries, favouring US and European outlets, erasing bylines and flattening local context — a pattern that threatens referral traffic, newsroom revenue, and...
A new University of Sydney study warns that AI-driven news summaries are quietly reshaping how Australians encounter current affairs — and not in ways that favour local journalism. The paper, led by Dr Timothy Koskie of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, finds that Microsoft’s Copilot...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly reshaping who gets heard in the news ecosystem — and a new University of Sydney audit finds Australians are getting squeezed out of the AI‑curated headlines they see.
Why this matters — and why Windows users should care
When an assistant like Copilot becomes a...