"[...] Just as AI technologies are disrupting the business model of the Internet, they will also have a significant impact on the financial sustainability of the news media. The ability of AI tools to generate and aggregate content and produce news-style summaries might altogether bypass the news media as information sources. Products and applications that repackage and republish journalistic content directly for chatbot users without permission or attribution to original publishers are growing rapidly. AI-powered search engine summaries and AI-driven content aggregators have already resulted in significant drops in referral traffic from Google Search (which controls 90 percent of the search market in most jurisdictions) and the attendant ad revenue that it previously generated. This could also potentially discourage users from accessing referenced news reports. While some large news publishers, such as the Associated Press and Axel Springer, have agreed to content licensing deals with AI companies, small and independent news organizations find it difficult to access similar opportunities. But AI tools might also lower the learning curve for local media to experiment with business development opportunities and build reader revenue models. Our discussion demonstrates a fine balance between the promising possibilities and the depressing dangers of AI use with respect to independent journalism and media viability. Many of these opportunities and concerns are examined in this annual report by the Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media (DC-Journalism), with a view toward identifying solutions and making recommendations for digital policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure independent journalism, public interest media and the open Internet remain viable in an AI-dominated landscape." (Introduction, page 9)