Why authority is the new speed
In the age of AI answers, moving quickly still matters to newsrooms. But keeping the citation depends on your authority.

In the age of AI answers, moving quickly still matters to newsrooms. But keeping the citation depends on your authority.

The Times and others say OpenAI withheld evidence in a copyright fight over ChatGPT training and output logs.

Local journalism has spent the last two decades fighting for survival. First came the internet. Then Craigslist. Then Google and social media. Now comes AI.

Newsrooms can't dictate what Google's AI does their work, but they can shape how it reads.

A mysterious website used artificial intelligence to fabricate a detailed story about the death of dozens of local Alabama newspapers.
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Although publishers provided the information, Google’s AI decided what millions of users would see first

By charging AI companies when content is actually used, Cloudflare hopes to build a more sustainable business model for the open web.

Second time this year Google has removed news stories after anonymous complaints only to reverse course after media queries

The company says new controls will let publishers separate search, agent use and model training

The new models show improved cyber-evaluation results despite not being trained for security tasks, but red flags around the underlying safeguards remain a live legal and policy issue in Washington
