Inside the AI scraping economy nobody wants to talk about
A shadow market of data middlemen is converting publisher work into fuel for AI agents, and the legal system is doing little to stop them.
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How do AI detectors work?
"Perplexity" isn't just an AI search engine—it's an aspect of writing that AI detectors analyze to estimate whether or not it came from a robot.
LinkedIn’s war on AI filler: Here’s what gets suppressed
LinkedIn is purging AI-generated filler from your feed, and it has a pretty specific idea of what counts as slop.
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they let AI write their papers
ArXiv just made it a bannable offense to let AI do the writing and skip the proofreading.
Microsoft Clarity’s new Citations tool gives publishers a new window into AI-driven discovery
Microsoft Clarity's Citations feature moves to general availability, giving publishers a view into AI-driven discovery.
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The new agentic AI battleground: The case for unified architecture
New data says 88% of AI pilots fail to reach production due to fragmented data architectures.
Independent journalism’s AI reckoning: A new report maps the stakes
A new white paper maps the promises and perils of AI-driven data markets for press freedom.
AI won’t save local news. But it might reinvent it.
Local journalism is collapsing under old business models. The next version may be more dependent on AI than most newsrooms are ready to admit.
Cate Blanchett Backs New AI Rights Nonprofit
RSL Media ia a nonprofit that wants to give every person a machine-readable way to control how AI uses their work.
Why AI content labels keep failing the people who need them most
The Emily Hart case reveals a gap between what platforms promise on AI transparency and what users encounter in their feeds.