How AI search is rewriting the rules of discovery
Early data on what AI search actually cites suggests a better incentive system for media, if you know how to feed the bots.
The end of 10 blue links is not the end of Google
Google’s AI search push may kill the old web traffic model, but it shows how firmly the company still controls the future of information.
A startup that sells publisher content to AI companies is now worth $2.2 billion
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.
OpenAI builds a new system to identify AI-generated images
SynthID watermarks and C2PA conformance are the backbone of a new effort, but OpenAI admits no single method is foolproof.
Google declares the end of the ’10 blue links’ era with AI search overhaul
Google I/O unveiled the biggest change to Search in 25 years — and it starts this week.
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Inside the AI scraping economy nobody wants to talk about
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.
LinkedIn’s war on AI filler: Here’s what gets suppressed
LinkedIn is purging AI-generated filler from your feed, and it has a pretty specific idea of what counts as slop.
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they let AI write their papers
ArXiv just made it a bannable offense to let AI do the writing and skip the proofreading.
Cate Blanchett Backs New AI Rights Nonprofit
RSL Media ia a nonprofit that wants to give every person a machine-readable way to control how AI uses their work.
Why AI content labels keep failing the people who need them most
The Emily Hart case reveals a gap between what platforms promise on AI transparency and what users encounter in their feeds.