Google expands AI licensing payments based on publishers’ content value
Google is testing a program that pays publishers when their content significantly contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews or AI Mode.

Google is testing a program that pays publishers when their content significantly contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews or AI Mode.

Reuters has connected its MCP server to CuttingRoom, letting editors find and edit agency video through plain-language prompts.

Made by Humans checks text, images, audio and video for synthetic manipulation before editors publish.

Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.

USA Today Co. is reorganizing its audience operation as The New York Times creates a role focused on AI and off-platform discovery.
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Arbiter, an AI tool from nonprofit SimPPL, is being tested to track emerging disinformation narratives.
TIME's COO on agent ads one month in: what advertisers are buying, why the AI stores what it scrapes, and what Perplexity got wrong.

OpenAI is providing more than 400 ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to interested graduate students and faculty at two journalism schools.

Footballco says its AI assistant Goal-e helped Goal grow World Cup users 42% and lift affiliate revenue past $12.6m in early 2026.

A billionaire's AI-written op-ed set off a credibility fight that no detector could have prevented.
