Arc XP launches Compass to personalize news home pages
Compass adapts home pages for returning readers while letting editors pin, boost or bury stories.

Compass adapts home pages for returning readers while letting editors pin, boost or bury stories.

Similarweb data cited by Axios shows U.S. web traffic to roughly 100 top news sites fell to 47.6 million visits in August.

Internal messages on substitution and paywalls give the Times fresh ammunition, while broader publisher leverage still depends on the court.

Every new AI release lands the same way: better tool, more backlash. For newsrooms, the fix is a name someone can actually hold responsible.

Internal Microsoft comments surfaced in an unsealed New York Times brief seeking to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for unauthorized copying.
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Reach plans to cut about 160 net editorial jobs while making engaged time a key measure of newsroom performance.

An NBC News correspondent interviewed an AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood and later described glitches and memory lapses.

Oasy co-founder Choy Travers on generative engine advertising, the Perplexity cloaking fight, and why licensing deals leave 90 percent of publishers behind.

Cloudflare will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages as it moves toward pay-per-use compensation.

The instinct to block AI bots understandable, but verifying bots protects your content while letting you compete for AI visibility.
