Meta now drives most AI agent traffic while sending publishers few visitors
DataDome logged 17.7 billion AI agent requests in Q2 2026, with Meta's crawlers generating most of the volume and almost no referral traffic back to sites.
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Bauer’s Take a Break drops freelance writers as AI drafts fiction stories
Bauer Media has told freelance writers for Take a Break's Fiction Feast their services are no longer needed as AI drafts stories in-house.
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.
Cloudflare’s new plan could change how AI pays publishers
By charging AI companies when content is actually used, Cloudflare hopes to build a more sustainable business model for the open web.
Can AI deliver trustworthy news? NewsGuard thinks its new Chatbot has the answer
Company says answers come from 12,000 vetted outlets, not web scraped.
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UK publishers can now opt out of Google AI Overveiws
The CMA says the opt-out mechanism is designed to give publishers negotiating power, not just traffic control.
AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.
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.