Breaking news is up 103% on Google as AI Overviews gut everything else
AI Overviews have cut publisher search traffic nearly in half, but breaking news is way up.
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A global publisher alliance could change how AI accesses the web
The creation of SPUR marks the media industry's most organized attempt yet to force AI companies into paying for content.
NewsGuard and Pangram are building an AI slop detector as content farms multiply
NewsGuard has flagged 3,000+ AI content farms and is now using AI itself to fight them.
Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its content
Britannica says OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT, then used the chatbot to steal its traffic.
How AI search really works, with Josh Blyskal
What happens when the click disappears and AI becomes the middleman between your content and your audience?
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Claude rewards niche journalism in AI answers, study finds
A Muck Rack analysis of Claude’s citations finds that smaller and niche outlets often surface more than major publishers.
Microsoft turns Microsoft 365 Copilot into a broader agentic work platform
Microsoft is pushing Copilot from chat assistant to enterprise work system — Wave 3 adds long-running agentic tasks, governance controls, and a new Frontier Suite bundle aimed at CIOs.
AI is making the one-man newsroom a reality
For Ricky Sutton, AI makes solo investigative reporting faster, cheaper, and powerful enough to rival a much bigger newsroom.
Perplexity says News Corp tried to bait its chatbot into copyright infringement
Perplexity is fighting back in the Dow Jones copyright case — accusing publishers of using deceptive prompts to manufacture evidence of infringement.
A new licensing push could force AI companies to pay publishers for news
The fight over AI pay for news is moving from private deal rooms into policy