Actor Matthew McConaughey said a visit with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City sparked his political ambitions, telling USA Today he is excited about the idea of helping write a constitution that all religi…
Palantir Technologies is integrating its Foundry platform into USA Today's newsroom, feeding decades of articles and real-time content into a unified data system that enables AI-powered queries and su…
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…
An incomplete list compiled by Consumer Rights Wiki identifies companies that have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with 23 major news outlets including The New York Times and USA Today…
More than 800 journalists from USA Today and its parent Gannett demanded the company terminate its AI data partnership with Palantir Technologies, citing ethical concerns over Palantir's work with U.S…
As of January 2026, 241 news organizations across nine countries, including the New York Times, CNN, USA Today, and The Guardian, have blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, citing AI trainin…
USA Today journalists, represented by The News Guild, are demanding that USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) immediately end its partnership with Palantir, citing ethical concerns over the AI surveillance…
San Francisco artist Tucker Bryant launched ChatTJB, a chatbot-style website in which he manually answers every prompt instead of using a large language model, drawing peak traffic of about 5,000 quer…
Cloudflare will block AI and search crawlers by default for new and free-tier publishers starting September 15, with Financial Times, Condé Nast, The Atlantic, USA Today, and Beehiiv among those prepa…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Google's AI Overviews are not delivering value for publishers, citing that '10 blue links has driven a tremendous amount of value for the whole ecosystem' while AI Overvi…
A new study from Similarweb shows users who see a brand in an AI large language model are 2.5 times more likely to visit that brand's website within seven days and are twice as engaged as traditional …
Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode are using publisher content to answer user queries directly, keeping users and advertising revenue inside Google, which has prompted publishers including USA Today, P…
Major online publishers including USA Today, Politico, the Economist, People, and Reuters are debating whether to block Google's crawlers as the tech giant's AI summaries reduce traffic and reuse cont…
Google's AI features are discouraging users from clicking on links, causing a traffic crisis for publishers like USA Today, Politico, and the Economist, which are now debating whether to cut off Googl…
Reddit shares fell about 9% after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has discussed cutting off Google's access to its content for AI, as its $60 million annual deal with Google nears expirat…
Reddit lost approximately $3.2 billion in market value after its shares fell about 9% on Wednesday following a Wall Street Journal report that the company is reconsidering whether to renew its AI data…
Reddit and major news publishers including USA Today, Politico, Reuters, and The Economist are considering cutting off Google's access to their sites as AI-generated search summaries reduce web traffi…
Major publishers including Reddit, Reuters, USA Today, and People are reportedly considering blocking Google's web crawlers to prevent their content from being used in AI-generated search results, acc…
Cloudflare is threatening to block Google's multi-purpose crawlers from accessing ad-supported webpages starting September 15, 2026, unless Google provides a technical solution that allows publishers …
USA Today, Newsweek, and other publishers are considering leaving Google Search as the tech giant's AI-driven search results and algorithm changes devastate their traffic and revenue. Cloudflare may r…