AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.
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Cloudflare and GoDaddy want to set the rules for the AI agent web
The two infrastructure giants are partnering to let website owners allow, block, or charge AI crawlers.
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.
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.
A new licensing push could force AI companies to pay publishers for news
The fight over AI pay for news is moving from private deal rooms into policy
Microsoft launches marketplace to broker AI licensing deals between publishers and developers
Publisher Content Marketplace lets publishers set terms and pricing for AI training data while tracking usage. Pay-per-use model aims to create healthier content ecosystem for the agentic web.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads with no revenue share for publishers
Unlike Perplexity, the company has no plans to cut in the news organizations fueling its answers.