Around 100 publishers have joined Google’s pilot program, The Information reports.
Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing
Some publishers are preparing for a future without Google.
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…
'Devastating' potential impact of Google AI Overviews on publisher visibility revealed
Google AI Overviews: Exclusive Press Gazette research reveals impact of AI-generated search on publisher visibility and Google traffic.
Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.
Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.
Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.
Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.
Google AI Overviews rollout hits news publisher search visibility
Google AI Overviews are increasingly being returned for search results in the UK and US and they are hitting publisher visibility.
Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows
The majority of Digital Content Next publisher members are seeing traffic losses from Google search between 1% and 25% due to AI Overviews.
Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
Training materials reviewed by The Intercept confirm that Google is offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities to Israel.
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
Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
Rejoice, website owners.
Announcing recipients of the Google.org AI Opportunity Fund: Europe
Google.org announced the 80 organizations that will receive funding and support from the AI Opportunity Fund: Europe to help 20,000 people learn AI skills.
Google opens Deep Review AI tool to help researchers catch manuscript errors
Google Research on Oct. 14 released Deep Review, an AI system designed to flag mathematical errors, logical gaps and unsupported claims in technical documents. The public launch follows pilots that provided feedback on more than 15,000 manuscripts, according to Google. Speaking at Google’s Research@ event in Mountain View, California, Rajesh Jayaram, a research scientist at…
Nobody Wants to Pay for Your AI
AI is everywhere today. It writes social posts, suggests email replies, recommends your next binge-watch, and quietly powers tools you use without even noticing.
Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’
Anthropic commits to spending $200 billion on Google's cloud and chips: Report
The commitment suggests the AI startup accounts for more than 40 per cent of the revenue backlog Google disclosed to investors last week, according to the report.
