Publishing has been built around a human reader. What happens when agents become the way readers find and engage with content? As AI agents increasingly read,…
Content Independence Day, one year on- building the business model for the agentic Internet
One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.
The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work
How will documents evolve when AI agents become ubiquitous? In a world of AI agents, does the repository become the source of truth—where humans declare intent, agents turn it into executable artif…
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. 🦞🤖
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. 🦞🤖
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. 🦞🤖
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
AI is disrupting web search and publishing, perhaps for the better…
Build Agent Advocates, Not Platform Agents
Language model agents are poised to mediate how people navigate and act online. If the companies that already dominate internet search, communication, and commerce -- or the firms trying to unseat...
Meta seeks to scrape news content for AI training without permission | Angela Mills Wade posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Meta’s message to publishers: let us scrape your journalism for AI, or stop using our platforms. In the very week that News Media Coalition launched their Primary Source Journalism Framework we get another extraordinary example of how dominant digital platforms are attempting to turn their market power into permission to appropriate the content of others. For free. As reported by Nieman Journalism Lab, Meta’s new commercial terms, effective 30 October, purport to authorise the company to scrape websites associated with business accounts, including news publishers, and use that content to train its products. No negotiated licence. No meaningful choice. Just acceptance by continued use of Meta’s services. And the implications go further. The terms even contemplate creating test credentials to access websites, raising serious questions about publishers’ ability to control access to their own content. Meta argues that publishers can still use robots.txt to restrict crawling but this is no safeguard to protect primary source journalism as such sweeping ‘contractual’ permissions could undermine publishers rights reservations. This is becoming a familiar pattern. Google effectively ties visibility in Search to the use of publishers’ content in its AI services. Now Meta appears to be seeking similarly expansive rights through its commercial terms. This is not consent freely given. It is an attempt to leverage platform dependency to extract valuable intellectual property without negotiation or remuneration. European copyright law gives publishers rights over their content, including the right to reserve it from text and data mining. Those rights must not be circumvented through take-it-or-leave-it contractual conditions imposed by powerful gatekeepers. The European Commission and competition authorities should scrutinise these terms urgently, including their implications for copyright, contractual fairness and abuse of market power. Publishers must retain the right to decide whether, how and on what terms their journalism is used by AI companies. Opt-in, not opt-out. Licensing, not appropriation. Henna Virkkunen Teresa Ribera #Copyright #AI #PrimarySourceJournalism #MediaPluralism #Competition #Publishers #BadBots | 23 comments on LinkedIn
Agents enter distribution - Sensemaker
Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025. Most are written by Nick Lichtenberg.
Our AI Philosophy | Typefully
Social media runs on an implicit contract: I write something, you follow me, you read it, and you trust it came from a human mind. AI writing is curr…
400 publications are now partnering with us on our News AI pilot program.
People’s information habits are evolving quickly, and platforms and publishers of all sizes are navigating these changes. To help meet this moment, we’re evolving our pa…
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