Can publishers sell ads to bots?
Oasy co-founder Choy Travers on generative engine advertising, the Perplexity cloaking fight, and why licensing deals leave 90 percent of publishers behind.
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Cloudflare tightens AI crawler controls for ad-supported publisher sites
Cloudflare will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages as it moves toward pay-per-use compensation.
Publishers don’t need to trust AI companies to work with them
The instinct to block AI bots understandable, but verifying bots protects your content while letting you compete for AI visibility.
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.
Reuters links CuttingRoom to its MCP server for newsroom AI video editing
Reuters has connected its MCP server to CuttingRoom, letting editors find and edit agency video through plain-language prompts.
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Press Gazette launches AI content detection tool for prepublication checks
Made by Humans checks text, images, audio and video for synthetic manipulation before editors publish.
When seeing is no longer believing: How AI fakes complicate visual investigations
Journalists and open-source experts say AI manipulation, shrinking access to footage and rising costs are making visual verification harder.
Publishers rebuild newsroom org charts for a post-Google search era
USA Today Co. is reorganizing its audience operation as The New York Times creates a role focused on AI and off-platform discovery.
AI tool Arbiter tracks emerging disinformation
Arbiter, an AI tool from nonprofit SimPPL, is being tested to track emerging disinformation narratives.
What TIME learned from a month of selling ads to bots
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.