As the use of AI tools continues to expand, it's no surprise that leading news publications would look for ways to leverage the technologies.  The Copyright Office's recent Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence explained that assistive uses of AI that enhance human expression do not limit copyright protection, but uses where an AI system makes expressive choices require further analysis.  If AI tools are used to assist with preparing news copy, the copy may be generally copyrightable, but the copyright protection may not reach aspects of it that were generated by AI.  In that case, copyright would protect against direct copying of news stories, but might not protect against partial copying of the contents from a story, which may or may not involve copying of creative human expression.  As content creators become more reliant on AI tools, they will need to consider how their use of AI tools could impact their rights to the works they create using those tools.