Our Mission
AiNews.com exists to help people understand what important AI developments actually mean—not just what happened.
AI is changing quickly, but more information does not always create more understanding. Our mission is to go beyond the headline with reporting and analysis that helps readers understand why an AI development matters, what the evidence supports, what remains uncertain, and what it could change.
We want readers to come away from AiNews with a clearer understanding of the developments that matter to their work, decisions, industries, and the world around them.
Who AiNews Is For
AiNews is for people who don’t just want to know what happened in AI—they want to understand what important developments actually mean.
They care about the consequences, implications, uncertainty, and the reasons behind major AI product announcements, governance decisions, business shifts, and industry trends. AI developments can affect their work, decisions, or understanding of the world around them, so a headline or quick summary often isn’t enough.
The Problem We Solve
Knowing what happened in AI is not the same as understanding what it means.
Major product announcements, policy decisions, research findings, business moves, and industry trends are often reported quickly and repeatedly. Readers can encounter the same development across multiple sources and still be left with the more important questions: How significant is this? What does the evidence actually support? Why did it happen? Who could be affected? What could change because of it?
AiNews closes the gap between knowing what happened and understanding why it matters.
Our Promise
Our promise is to go beyond the headline so readers come away understanding more than what happened—why the development matters, what it could mean for them or their work, and what they need to know to make sense of it.
Our Core Values
Accuracy: We prioritize factual reporting, clear sourcing, and careful context. Although AI moves quickly, we believe speed should never come at the expense of accuracy, source review, or responsible interpretation.
Clarity: We make complex AI news easier to understand without stripping away the technical details that matter.
Context: We look beyond what happened to understand why it happened, why it matters, who could be affected, and what could change because of it.
Human Editorial Judgment: We use AI as part of our modern journalism workflow, but our reporting, interviews, analysis, editing, and editorial decisions remain guided by human judgment.
Responsible AI Coverage: We cover AI with curiosity, balance, healthy skepticism, and transparency. When we use AI-generated images or AI-assisted content, we clearly disclose that to our readers.
Meet Our Team
Michael Mazzotta — Founder, AiNews.com
Michael Mazzotta is the Founder of AiNews.com and a visionary entrepreneur who established the agency with a goal to create a leading platform dedicated to AI developments. As a strategic growth facilitator, Michael works behind the scenes to drive subscriber growth and forge connections with top AI leaders, expanding the AI News audience. He actively builds relationships with AI companies and industry leaders, securing high-profile interviews for the series "Driving Tomorrow: Conversations with AI Leaders."
In addition to his work at AiNews, Michael leads initiatives to establish San Diego as a hub for AI innovation, organizing events and collaborations to strengthen the local AI community. Leveraging his extensive experience as an investor and entrepreneur, Michael is instrumental in guiding AiNews.com toward becoming a trusted platform for AI news, interviews, and industry insights. Known as the backbone of the company, his expertise in company growth and development ensures the continued success of AI News.
Alicia Shapiro — CMO, Editor & Founding Member
Alicia Shapiro is Chief Marketing Officer, Head of News Reporting, and a Founding Member of AiNews.com, where she leads editorial direction, brand strategy, audience growth, and AI discoverability efforts.
Alicia focuses on helping readers understand not only what happened in AI, but what it means. Through journalism, interviews, and analysis, she translates complex AI developments into clear, useful context for business leaders, professionals, and curious readers.
She also hosts Driving Tomorrow: Conversations with AI Leaders, where she interviews founders, executives, researchers, and innovators building real-world AI products and services.
Alicia is a frequent moderator and speaker at industry events, including HumanX, Ai4, and TechCon San Diego, where she leads conversations on AI innovation, adoption, journalism, and human-centered technology.
A passionate advocate for ethical AI, Alicia is committed to aligning AiNews.com with responsible AI journalism while advancing conversations around transparency, safety, and human-centered design.
Before joining AiNews.com, Alicia founded Aliro Marketing, a San Diego-based social media agency that has helped more than 150 businesses improve their visibility and engagement since 2012. Her background in marketing, media, and audience development helps shape AiNews.com's mission to make AI understandable through trusted journalism, thoughtful analysis, and conversations with the people building the future of artificial intelligence.
Patrick McAndrew, Contributing Writer
Patrick McAndrew is a responsible AI strategist, writer, and actor based in New York City. He is the Founder of the Future of Entertainment Alliance, a new initiative that advocates for human creativity in entertainment as emerging technologies like AI continue to revolutionize the industry. Patrick’s work focuses on the benefits of implementing responsible AI practices with expertise in entertainment and media. He currently works on the responsible AI team at HCLTech and has worked for the Responsible AI Institute and the Entertainment Community Fund.
Jim Harris, Contributing Writer
Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost thinkers on AI, disruption and innovation. He writes business books, columns and white papers and is a frequent guest on leading podcasts. Association magazine ranked him as one of North America’s top ten thinkers.
His new book The Age of Fakes!: How AI Abuse, Fake News, and Deepfakes Threaten Business and Society which he co-authored is published on Amazon in 2026 has hit #1 bestseller status in Australia and the US in five categories.
Jim’s prior book, Blindsided!, is published in 80 countries worldwide and is a #1 international bestseller. Soundview Executive Summaries selected Blindsided! as one of the best business books of the year sending a summary to 80,000 executives globally. The Miami Herald calls Blindsided! “Brilliant stuff!”
Other books he’s written include The Learning Paradox, which was nominated for the national business book award and The 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada, which was a national bestseller.
Jim’s YouTube video focusing on surprising AI applications was posted in 2025 and has broken 5 million views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyTJVWyQJI
Every year Jim attends the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. His social accounts create up to $600,000 of earned media according to third party analytic tools. And his accounts (YouTube, LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook) have created the most impressions among personal social accounts in three of the last 10 years – registering up to 250,000,000 impressions.
Jim also attends Davos and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona every year – along with 50 other events.
Jim writes for AI News, Corporate Knights magazine and numerous other publications. His insights are featured on DM Radio which is syndicated in 13 markets. He is a frequent contributor to podcast on AI, tech, innovation and disruption. In past he has appeared in or on Time magazine, the BBC, the Business News Network, CTV, the CBC, Global TV, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star. He had a regular column in the Financial Post (part of the National Post) that was syndicated in the Postmedia network. He has worked in print, radio and television for more than 36 years.
In addition to journalism, Jim also speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide. In 2024, he was named the Speaker of the Year by the largest CEO peer mentoring group in Canada from among the 500 speakers.
Jim is a one of North America’s foremost thinkers on AI, Thriving Amid Uncertainty, and disruptive innovation. He is one of the world’s leading keynote speakers presenting internationally at 50+ events a year. Jim also leads strategic planning sessions with executive teams. His firm provides AI advisory and AI training to organizations.
His clients include American Express, Canadian Society of Association Executive, CIBC, IBM, Munich Re, Meeting Planners International, the Top 200 CIOs of India, the UK Cabinet Office, Swiss Re, Walmart, Zurich Insurance.
Follow him on
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimharrisprofile/
X: https://x.com/JimHarris
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@speakerjimharris
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jim.harris.profile/
Muck Rack: https://muckrack.com/jim-harris-2/articles
You can email him at [email protected]