This chatbot wants to be your newsfeed. Is it the answer to fake news?

The artificial intelligence-powered chatbots reached a consensus: The biggest news story of the day on Tuesday is a temporary halt on oil sanctions as part of a preliminary deal between the U.S. and Iran.

That's according to prompts generated by some of the leading AI tools, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot. But only one of the chatbots that Straight Arrow put to the test was built specifically with news consumers in mind.

It's called NewsGuard AI, a chatbot released Tuesday by a for-profit media literacy company that evaluates the reliability of thousands of online news sources. Unlike general interest chatbots like ChatGPT, NewsGuard AI was built with a mission: to provide accurate responses about topics in the news...