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Muck Rack licenses MIT Technology Review for expanded AI news monitoring

July 28, 2026

Muck Rack has licensed MIT Technology Review’s full editorial coverage, including paywalled reporting, for its AI-focused communications monitoring platform.

Read moreMuck Rack licenses MIT Technology Review for expanded AI news monitoring

Citing trusted news brands increases confidence in AI responses, UK Ipsos survey finds

July 28, 2026

A UK Ipsos survey for AOP finds that trust in cited news brands strongly shapes trust in AI-generated answers.

Read moreCiting trusted news brands increases confidence in AI responses, UK Ipsos survey finds

OpenAI invests another $8 million in the American Journalism Project

July 22, 2026

OpenAI is committing $5 million and $3 million in tech credits to the American Journalism Project over the next two years.

Read moreOpenAI invests another $8 million in the American Journalism Project
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News Corp countersues Brave over alleged AI scraping of WSJ and Post articles

July 22, 2026

News Corp accused search company Brave of flagrant theft in reselling copyrighted articles to AI firms, escalating a dispute Brave started in 2025.

Read moreNews Corp countersues Brave over alleged AI scraping of WSJ and Post articles
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AP joins SPUR as publishers build a telemetry standard to track AI content use

July 14, 2026

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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Read moreAP joins SPUR as publishers build a telemetry standard to track AI content use
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Some Publishers are turning AI into a revenue stream through Snowflake

May 31, 2026

Snowflake's Cortex platform is helping publishers license content for AI use, and some are already closing six-figure deals.

Read moreSome Publishers are turning AI into a revenue stream through Snowflake
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AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth

April 13, 2026

Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.

Read moreAP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its content

March 16, 2026

Britannica says OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT, then used the chatbot to steal its traffic.

Read moreEncyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its content
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A new licensing push could force AI companies to pay publishers for news

March 11, 2026

The fight over AI pay for news is moving from private deal rooms into policy

Read moreA new licensing push could force AI companies to pay publishers for news
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads with no revenue share for publishers

January 27, 2026

Unlike Perplexity, the company has no plans to cut in the news organizations fueling its answers.

Read moreOpenAI launches ChatGPT ads with no revenue share for publishers
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