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Pete Pachal

A startup that sells publisher content to AI companies is now worth $2.2 billion

May 21, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz led a funding round in the AI search startup months after a media researcher identified it as a key vendor in the unlicensed publisher content market.

Read moreA startup that sells publisher content to AI companies is now worth $2.2 billion

OpenAI builds a new system to identify AI-generated images

May 20, 2026

SynthID watermarks and C2PA conformance are the backbone of a new effort, but OpenAI admits no single method is foolproof.

Read moreOpenAI builds a new system to identify AI-generated images

Google declares the end of the ’10 blue links’ era with AI search overhaul

May 20, 2026

Google I/O unveiled the biggest change to Search in 25 years — and it starts this week.

Read moreGoogle declares the end of the ’10 blue links’ era with AI search overhaul
AI content scraping

Inside the AI scraping economy nobody wants to talk about

May 19, 2026

A shadow market of data middlemen is converting publisher work into fuel for AI agents, and the legal system is doing little to stop them.

Read moreInside the AI scraping economy nobody wants to talk about
LinkedIn post card with AI-generated filler text stamped SUPPRESSED in orange

LinkedIn’s war on AI filler: Here’s what gets suppressed

May 18, 2026

LinkedIn is purging AI-generated filler from your feed, and it has a pretty specific idea of what counts as slop.

Read moreLinkedIn’s war on AI filler: Here’s what gets suppressed
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ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they let AI write their papers

May 18, 2026

ArXiv just made it a bannable offense to let AI do the writing and skip the proofreading.

Read moreArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they let AI write their papers

Cate Blanchett Backs New AI Rights Nonprofit

May 12, 2026

RSL Media ia a nonprofit that wants to give every person a machine-readable way to control how AI uses their work.

Read moreCate Blanchett Backs New AI Rights Nonprofit

Why AI content labels keep failing the people who need them most

May 12, 2026

The Emily Hart case reveals a gap between what platforms promise on AI transparency and what users encounter in their feeds.

Read moreWhy AI content labels keep failing the people who need them most
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Google tags AI overview links from publications you subscribe to

May 7, 2026

Google will now label AI search results from publications you pay for, part of a broader citation update.

Read moreGoogle tags AI overview links from publications you subscribe to

Scott Turow and Five Publishers Sue Meta Over AI Training Data

May 6, 2026

Scott Turow and five major publishers sued Meta for using copyrighted books to train its Llama AI model. The complaint cites pirate sites and internal messages about sidestepping licensing deals.

Read moreScott Turow and Five Publishers Sue Meta Over AI Training Data
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