AP joins SPUR as publishers build a telemetry standard to track AI content use
The Associated Press has joined SPUR, a publisher-run coalition building a five-event standard to track how AI systems use news content.
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The Washington Post’s Arc XP launches AI answer tool to help keep readers in their ecosystems
Ask The News lets news organizations deploy AI-powered search tools using their own journalism, while giving them new audience insights
Publishers ask court to sanction OpenAI in escalating copyright fight
The Times and others say OpenAI withheld evidence in a copyright fight over ChatGPT training and output logs.
AI fake news network invents the collapse of 47 local Alabama newspapers
A mysterious website used artificial intelligence to fabricate a detailed story about the death of dozens of local Alabama newspapers.
Google’s AI Overviews surface suicide details, raising questions over AI editorial standards
Although publishers provided the information, Google’s AI decided what millions of users would see first
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Google delists then reinstates Press Gazette investigation into AI-generated news stories
Second time this year Google has removed news stories after anonymous complaints only to reverse course after media queries
Cloudflare will block AI training crawlers by default on ad-supported sites
The company says new controls will let publishers separate search, agent use and model training
Anthropic restores Fable 5 access, launches Sonnet 5, as Washington scrutiny deepens
The new models show improved cyber-evaluation results despite not being trained for security tasks, but red flags around the underlying safeguards remain a live legal and policy issue in Washington
Trump administration allows limited GPT-5.6 release
White House wants the advanced AI model tested with approved partners before a broader release
With Claude Tag, Anthropic has entered the Slack chat
Says Claude Tag enables persistent memory and tasks