The White House AI blueprint tells publishers where the administration stands on copyright. Spoiler: It’s not with them
The Trump administration’s AI policy framework backs AI companies on copyright and wants to override state regulation.
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Five lessons from newsrooms that stopped talking about AI and started building with it
Poynter spent a day at SXSW with journalists actually using AI — and the through-line is ruthlessly practical: start with a pain point, draw the line, name where the human sits.
Court dismisses Arkansas publishers’ antitrust suit against Google
A federal judge tossed an antitrust case against Google, not because Google is innocent, but because the claims came too late.
Arc XP integrates TollBit so publishers can charge AI bots for content access
Arc XP publishers can now block or charge AI bots for content access through a native TollBit integration.
Breaking news is up 103% on Google as AI Overviews gut everything else
AI Overviews have cut publisher search traffic nearly in half, but breaking news is way up.
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NewsGuard and Pangram are building an AI slop detector as content farms multiply
NewsGuard has flagged 3,000+ AI content farms and is now using AI itself to fight them.
Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its content
Britannica says OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT, then used the chatbot to steal its traffic.
Claude rewards niche journalism in AI answers, study finds
A Muck Rack analysis of Claude’s citations finds that smaller and niche outlets often surface more than major publishers.
Microsoft turns Microsoft 365 Copilot into a broader agentic work platform
Microsoft is pushing Copilot from chat assistant to enterprise work system — Wave 3 adds long-running agentic tasks, governance controls, and a new Frontier Suite bundle aimed at CIOs.
Perplexity says News Corp tried to bait its chatbot into copyright infringement
Perplexity is fighting back in the Dow Jones copyright case — accusing publishers of using deceptive prompts to manufacture evidence of infringement.