Affiliate Marketing Faces a Reckoning as AI Overviews Reshape Traffic
Affiliate marketing is navigating a structural shift in how content discovery—and by whom.
YouTube Will Auto-Label AI-Generated Videos, and Make Those Labels Harder to Miss
YouTube is moving from voluntary disclosure to automatic detection when it comes to AI-generated content.
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.
A fraudster built a network of fake AI news sites to manipulate search results
Drew Chapin, who pleaded guilty to investor fraud in 2021, acknowledged running 17 AI-driven fake local news sites.
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.
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.
Microsoft Clarity’s new Citations tool gives publishers a new window into AI-driven discovery
Microsoft Clarity's Citations feature moves to general availability, giving publishers a view into AI-driven discovery.
Independent journalism’s AI reckoning: A new report maps the stakes
A new white paper maps the promises and perils of AI-driven data markets for press freedom.