Axios bets OpenAI money can make local news newsletters profitable
OpenAI is funding 13 new Axios Local newsletters under a three-year deal whose financial terms neither company will disclose.
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800 staffers want USA Today Co. to walk away from Palantir
Unionized employees at 31 USA Today Co. newsrooms say the Palantir deal creates a conflict of interest and threatens reader data security.
USA Today Co. hires Palantir to mine audience data as search traffic drops
USA Today Co. will use Palantir's AI platform to convert anonymous readers into known, monetizable first-party relationships as search referrals decline.
Media buyers debate whether ads can sway AI search
Publishers are selling ads formatted for AI agents to read, but media buyers disagree on whether the tactic actually works.
Runtime Wire runs an AI newsroom with one human and 1,627 published stories
Runtime Wire's founder Ryan Merket runs an AI newsroom that scanned 71,796 stories and published just 2.3 percent of them.
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Big brands pile into ChatGPT ads as OpenAI scales up
ChatGPT users saw roughly twice as many ads per hour in July as in April, with mainstream brands replacing tech startups atop OpenAI's advertiser list.
Time starts building ads for AI agents as bot traffic overtakes humans
Time is placing brand FAQs inside markdown pages aimed at AI crawlers, with Ally Bank and the Project Management Institute among its first buyers.
AI “Earthquake” hits UK publisher digital revenue in Q1
UK publishers' total digital revenue fell 4.55% in Q1 2026 after four straight quarters of growth, driven partly by AI answers.
YouTube tightens monetization rules around AI slop
YouTube now bars monetization for three types of inauthentic content, including generic AI videos, distressing clips and AI personas discussing health or finance.
beehiiv expands beyond newsletters With AI and ad tools
beehiiv rolled out Community, an AI operator called Copilot, programmatic newsletter ads and a new visual editor at its Summer Release Event.