Meta's two crawlers, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-WebIndexer, now carry the majority of AI agent traffic, growing 74% and 163% quarter over quarter, respectively, according to bot-defense vendor DataDo…
Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, with licensing agreements covering more than 5,500 European press publishers, even as Apple considers a model that would tie pay…
Apple has approached several news publishers about multiyear deals to give its forthcoming Siri AI assistant access to their content, with a proposed nine-figure budget and a pay-per-use structure, ac…
Apple is in talks with publishers to secure multiyear deals worth up to nine figures that would give Siri AI improved access to current events and information, according to a report in The Wall Street…
The New York Times, News Corp, USA Today Co., and People Inc. reported second-quarter earnings this week, with traffic declines attributed to AI. Each publisher is adopting a strategy of licensing con…
Perplexity AI faces a motion to dismiss in a copyright lawsuit, while Reddit's attempt to dismiss a similar case was rejected and News Corp has filed a lawsuit against Brave, highlighting the escalati…
A new U.S. map of copyright lawsuits against AI companies shows 129 total cases as of July 30, 2026, with the addition of Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs II and the reactivation of Brave So…
Anthropic agreed a record $1.5bn settlement over its use of pirated books to train AI models, approved by a US federal court on Wednesday. The Publishers Association urged UK ministers to force AI com…
News Corp, parent company of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing Brave AI, alleging the privacy-focused search engine scraped and sold copyrighted news content to AI companies with…
News Corp countersued Brave Software on Tuesday, accusing the search engine of 'flagrant theft' for scraping and selling articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post to AI companies without…
Hong Kong's media industry risks missing financial and cultural opportunities by failing to invest in AI and data monetization, as international publishers like News Corp sign deals worth US$250 milli…
Google is pressuring news publishers to join a new AI pilot program that promotes content in AI Overviews, but demands broad access to their content for AI training and warns that non-participants wil…
CNN filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity this week, accusing the AI answer engine of unlawfully copying thousands of its stories, videos, and images to power search responses. The complaint alle…