New report finds wide disparity in AI tollbooths for publishers
The same companies building AI products that strip publishers of traffic are now writing the rules for AI licensing.
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CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft
CNN is suing Perplexity, arguing that a company “valued at tens of billions of dollars” should pay for the journalism it exploits.
The Scraper Economy is already here. Publishers just aren’t getting paid.
As AI systems increasingly rely on publisher content to answer questions, a new marketplace for information has quietly emerged. The problem? Publishers are barely part of it.
AP Signs OpenAI as Elections Data Customer, Extending Reach to ChatGPT Users
The partnership means election data will be available to ChatGPT users for the 2028 election.
Affiliate Marketing Faces a Reckoning as AI Overviews Reshape Traffic
Affiliate marketing is navigating a structural shift in how content discovery—and by whom.
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YouTube Will Auto-Label AI-Generated Videos, and Make Those Labels Harder to Miss
YouTube is moving from voluntary disclosure to automatic detection when it comes to AI-generated content.
How AI search is rewriting the rules of discovery
Early data on what AI search actually cites suggests a better incentive system for media, if you know how to feed the bots.
The end of 10 blue links is not the end of Google
Google’s AI search push may kill the old web traffic model, but it shows how firmly the company still controls the future of information.
A startup that sells publisher content to AI companies is now worth $2.2 billion
Andreessen Horowitz led a funding round in the AI search startup months after a media researcher identified it as a key vendor in the unlicensed publisher content market.
OpenAI builds a new system to identify AI-generated images
SynthID watermarks and C2PA conformance are the backbone of a new effort, but OpenAI admits no single method is foolproof.