<p>This study delves into how Nepali journalists have utilized AI technologies in their day-to-day newsroom tasks and perceived potentialities and challenges of these technologies. Study data were collected using semi-structured interviews with Nepali journalists, who self-identified as early users of AI technologies in newsrooms. The journalists’ responses were critically examined by adopting the thematic analysis method. While Nepali journalists appreciated the time, effort, and resource-saving capacities of AI technologies vis-à-vis the entire news cycle, from information collection, news writing, editing, graphics design, translation to content dissemination, their voices also identified organizational hesitancy, weak AI infrastructure, and limited AI literacy as key barriers to effective adoption of AI technologies in newsrooms. Our findings also revealed a lack of clear policy, limited transparency, a dearth of professional accountability, and eroding journalistic credibility as key ethical challenges of uncritically over-relying on AI technologies. We further emphasize the need for investing in AI literacy and policy initiatives to guide and equip journalists for the effective and responsible usage of AI technologies in newsrooms.</p>