Citing trusted news brands increases confidence in AI responses, UK Ipsos survey finds
A UK Ipsos survey for AOP finds that trust in cited news brands strongly shapes trust in AI-generated answers.
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Media OutReach bets on US newswires to boost AI visibility
Media OutReach Newswire now guarantees press release placements on USA Today and 770 US news sites to boost AI search visibility.
Delhi High Court rules OpenAI’s training on ANI news content is fair dealing
A Delhi High Court judge ruled OpenAI's training of ChatGPT on ANI articles falls under India's fair-dealing exemption for research.
Nine network axes 30 more jobs at SMH and The Age, citing AI disruption
Nine Entertainment will cut around 30 newsroom positions at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, citing severe AI-driven disruption.
Publishers Turn to AI ‘Honeypots’ to Fight Content Scraping
As AI companies continue collecting web data for training, publishers are testing digital traps designed to waste crawlers’ time and make large-scale scraping more expensive.
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Google search traffic to drop by half by Q3 2027 for UK publishers
Organic Google referrals to eight major UK publishers fell 7.1% in a single quarter, a pace that would halve traffic by late 2027.
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.
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.