What publishers should get from AI besides money
AI referrals are tiny but valuable, Google is shaky ground, and a licensing check is only half the deal. Bombora's Jaime Schultheis explains.
CNN doubles its data team as it expands AI across products
CNN is using AI for personalization, weather summaries, storyline analysis and other tools as it builds out its data operation.
OpenAI adds another $10 million to Lenfest AI fellowships
Lenfest will consider local TV and statewide public service journalism as it opens the next round of its AI fellowship program.
NewsGuard brings fact-checking chatbot to five European countries
NewsGuard AI draws from 12,000 vetted sources and shares revenue with publishers whose work it cites.
News UK finds one in five website visits came from bots
News UK CTO Tom Jackson said about 20% of traffic over six months was non-human, with 6% of total traffic blocked as malicious bots.
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Adobe adds Acrobat to Claude plugin, plans Gemini integration
Adobe is bringing Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and Firefly to Google Gemini while its Claude plugin adds Acrobat tools and interactive editing.
What 99 AI licensing deals reveal about the future of publishing
Rob Kelly tracks 99 AI licensing deals. What publishers are really selling now, and why OpenAI may settle with the Times.
DataDome says bad bot traffic jumped 124% as AI agents reach login pages
DataDome found malicious bot traffic grew nine times faster than human traffic, while AI agents increasingly reached login and payment flows.
Arc XP launches Compass to personalize news home pages
Compass adapts home pages for returning readers while letting editors pin, boost or bury stories.
Axios says AI is breaking the link economy
Similarweb data cited by Axios shows U.S. web traffic to roughly 100 top news sites fell to 47.6 million visits in August.