More than 300 publishers press Congress on stealth bot bill
Publishers are lobbying for a federal bill that would require stealth crawlers to identify themselves and disclose their purpose.

Publishers are lobbying for a federal bill that would require stealth crawlers to identify themselves and disclose their purpose.

Publishers in Google’s AI contribution pilot report uneven payments and say Search Console makes month-to-month tracking difficult.
AI referrals are tiny but valuable, Google is shaky ground, and a licensing check is only half the deal. Bombora's Jaime Schultheis explains.
Rob Kelly tracks 99 AI licensing deals. What publishers are really selling now, and why OpenAI may settle with the Times.

Oasy co-founder Choy Travers on generative engine advertising, the Perplexity cloaking fight, and why licensing deals leave 90 percent of publishers behind.
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Google is testing a program that pays publishers when their content significantly contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews or AI Mode.
TIME's COO on agent ads one month in: what advertisers are buying, why the AI stores what it scrapes, and what Perplexity got wrong.

The government says a ruling against OpenAI could threaten national security and put smaller publishers at a disadvantage.

Reuters is selling access to its journalism archive dating to 1987 in five languages through Snowflake Marketplace under licensed terms.

The trade group plans to publish the framework Nov. 12 as publishers push for credit when AI systems help shape a purchase.
