Publishers are testing creator-led journalism and AI tools as referral traffic declines and audience discovery becomes less predictable.

More than 300 news publishers are lobbying Congress to require stealth bots to identify themselves and disclose why they are accessing websites.

Google is testing payments to publishers whose content contributes to AI answers, but participants report uneven and unpredictable payouts.

CNN is using AI for personalization, weather summaries, storyline analysis and subscription tools.

OpenAI is adding $10 million to Lenfest’s AI fellowship program as it considers more local TV and statewide journalism applicants.

Efficiency AI made journalism cheaper. Opportunity AI asks what readers could get from your work that they never could before.

NewsGuard AI is launching in five European countries, drawing from vetted sources and sharing revenue with publishers whose work it cites.

News UK says about one-fifth of its website traffic over six months came from non-human visitors, with 6% blocked as malicious bots.

Adobe's Gemini launch and expanded Claude plugin put Photoshop, Acrobat and Express tools in your chat window. See what's new for your workflow.

Rob Kelly has logged 99 AI licensing deals. He explains why training is fading from them, what publishers sell now, and why OpenAI may settle with the Times.

DataDome found malicious bot traffic rose 124% as AI agents increasingly reached login, account and payment pages.

Axios data shows news traffic falling as AI interfaces reshape discovery and generative AI referrals remain small compared with search.

Newly unsealed OpenAI and Microsoft records give The New York Times fresh evidence on substitution, market harm and paywall access.

Better AI keeps producing louder backlash. For newsrooms, the fix isn't a disclosure policy, it's a name someone can be held accountable to.

A Microsoft researcher called AI training “the largest theft of labor in human history” in material cited by The New York Times.

NBC News interviewed AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood on 3rd Hour of Today, raising questions about how synthetic guests appear on air.

Blocking every AI crawler costs publishers visibility. Here's how to verify bots with logs instead of trusting AI companies on faith.

Reuters connected its MCP server to CuttingRoom, letting editors search, edit and reformat licensed video with plain-language prompts.

Journalists and OSINT experts say AI manipulation, limited footage and rising costs are making visual verification more difficult.

Arbiter is an AI-powered social monitoring tool helping newsrooms track emerging narratives and disinformation across multiple platforms.

TIME started serving ads to AI agents in July. COO Mark Howard on what advertisers are buying, why the models remember what they scrape, and the Perplexity dispute.

OpenAI is providing 400+ ChatGPT Edu subscriptions to journalism students and faculty at CUNY’s Newmark J-School and Northwestern’s Medill.

Microsoft says millions of Copilot chats rarely reproduced publisher content, arguing the data strengthens its fair-use case.

AI detectors can't stop readers from judging AI writing on sight, as a billionaire's op-ed fight shows. Credibility is the real issue.

The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, adding to a growing publisher battle over how AI companies use news content.

The Justice Department backs OpenAI in its New York Times copyright fight, arguing a Times victory could hurt American AI competitiveness.

Adobe for Slack gives Business+ and Enterprise+ teams access to more than 70 creative tools for images, video and PDFs without leaving chat.

The Local Media Consortium AI accelerator will audit your newsroom's tech stack and AI readiness before you spend. See how the program works.

Opinion editors at major U.S. newspapers say they are drawing limits on AI-written submissions, even as detection remains difficult.

Even well-resourced publishers can't block every AI crawler. Here's why the fight over bot access is already lost, and what matters more.

An NPR and NewsGuard test found AI chatbots were more likely than search engines to challenge false narratives.

Stanley Druckenmiller told NOTUS he used AI while writing a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Nicholas Johnston says newsrooms should measure how often their journalism appears in AI answers as search traffic shifts toward LLMs.

AI can absorb an expert’s work, reproduce their ideas, and generate answers based on their knowledge. Onix wants to build a different model.

Reuters is offering 39 years of journalism through Snowflake Marketplace, facilitating a new way to license news content for AI applications.

The IAB is drafting a framework to measure AI’s role in conversions as publishers push for credit when their content influences purchases.

Thomson Reuters says it spent $40 million building Thomson, a proprietary AI model trained on its legal, tax and Reuters content.

ChatGPT's May traffic surge sends clicks to brand homepages, revealing how OpenAI is building its ad model on publisher trust.