What YouTube and Substack got right and wrong about AI slop
Two platforms announced two very different playbooks for handling AI slop, and one is going to age better than the other.
Why newsrooms are quietly retiring the AI byline
As AI writing spreads, publishers are learning that giving robots bylines can come with a cost.
The bots publishers should be letting through the door
Not every bot in your logs is an enemy. The ones publishers keep shutting out are often the ones building authority in AI answers.
Why authority is the new speed
In the age of AI answers, moving quickly still matters to newsrooms. But keeping the citation depends on your authority.
Publishers ask court to sanction OpenAI in escalating copyright fight
The Times and others say OpenAI withheld evidence in a copyright fight over ChatGPT training and output logs.
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AI accuracy is Google’s problem—until it becomes a publisher’s
Newsrooms can't dictate what Google's AI does their work, but they can shape how it reads.
Cloudflare’s new plan could change how AI pays publishers
By charging AI companies when content is actually used, Cloudflare hopes to build a more sustainable business model for the open web.
The news brand is the only thing AI users still click for
Trust in news keeps falling, but readers still reach for known names to check what the machine tells them.
The Fable 5 pullback turns AI availability into a planning problem
Anthropic's Fable 5 came and went in days. For anyone planning workflows around frontier models, access is now a moving variable.
EU publishes voluntary code on AI content transparency
The European Commission has published a voluntary Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.