How Grounded Synthetic Data is Saving the Publishing Industry

Explore how synthetic data is revolutionizing the news ecosystem and protecting publishers in this 24-minute conference talk from MLOps.community's Agents in Production 2025. Discover how publishers are monetizing synthetic versions of their data to feed news-hungry AI agents while safeguarding against copyright infringement and reducing hallucination rates in broad-purpose agents that utilize hundreds of tools. Learn about the critical role of "Context Engineering" in packaging data for quality and ease of consumption by increasingly sophisticated generalist agents. Examine the development of the world's largest news knowledge graph - a searchable, highly accurate news context delivery system designed for high-stakes decision-making agentic tasks including fact-checking, geopolitical risk analysis, and event forecasting for prediction markets. Gain insights from Robert Caulk, a scientist turned entrepreneur focused on building comprehensive news knowledge graphs to serve context-hungry AI agents, as he demonstrates how quality data input directly correlates to quality output in modern AI systems.