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.
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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.
Unsealed OpenAI emails bolster NYT copyright case
Internal messages on substitution and paywalls give the Times fresh ammunition, while broader publisher leverage still depends on the court.
Microsoft researcher called AI training the ‘largest theft of labor in human history’
Internal Microsoft comments surfaced in an unsealed New York Times brief seeking to hold Microsoft and OpenAI liable for unauthorized copying.
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Reach plans net cut of 160 editorial jobs, prioritizing engaged time over views
Reach plans to cut about 160 net editorial jobs while making engaged time a key measure of newsroom performance.
NBC News interviews AI actress Tilly Norwood on Today
An NBC News correspondent interviewed an AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood and later described glitches and memory lapses.
Cloudflare tightens AI crawler controls for ad-supported publisher sites
Cloudflare will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages as it moves toward pay-per-use compensation.
Google expands AI licensing payments based on publishers’ content value
Google is testing a program that pays publishers when their content significantly contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews or AI Mode.
Reuters links CuttingRoom to its MCP server for newsroom AI video editing
Reuters has connected its MCP server to CuttingRoom, letting editors find and edit agency video through plain-language prompts.