Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in sub…
TikTok says it contributed $81 billion to the U.S. economy in 2025, but the more revealing figure may be how many businesses say they depend on it.
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday. A…
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tue…
Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on 13 November, blaming AI scraping. RSS is now widely used for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, the company said in a post to moderators on Wednesday. RSS lets people follow a site’s new posts in a feed r…
Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products “in the months ahead”. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at Hu…
Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic…
YouTube’s Shorts Series comes as microdramas pass 6.5 billion views. But while YouTube monetizes attention, dedicated apps make money when viewers keep watching.
YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on F…
Robert Gaudette used generative AI to move from visualizing films for clients to making finished work, testing whether judgment can become the real product in production.