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The Associated Press Now Automates Earnings Stories, No Humans Needed

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The Associated Press is shifting its by-the-numbers business reporting to automation with a little helps from ones and zeros.


Quarterly corporate earnings reports from the AP will soon be produced through a computer program that is able to take the key numbers from companies' results to create a story of 150 to 300 words, the media company announced in a blog post.



The move puts the dry—but important—job of relating the dense earnings results of public companies into a readable format. Earnings stories are important for company transparency and accountability. Read more...


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