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"The future of AI should and will not be defined by who has the best model or the cheapest compute. It will hinge upon access to the highest-quality data, and whether that data is lawful, licensed, accurate, original, and kept current."
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What AI reveals about premium content: It was valuable all along
Richard Gingras has been surfacing in my human “feed” far too often these past few weeks. As many readers will know, Gingras spent nearly two decades as
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November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"The future of AI should and will not be defined by who has the best model or the cheapest compute. It will hinge upon access to the highest-quality data, and whether that data is lawful, licensed, accurate, original, and kept current."
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"When we talk to all the AI companies, they all say they’re willing to pay for content, and we think that’s fair. Except one. The one notable exception is Google."
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why Google must ‘play by the same rules’ as other AI companies
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince believes Google will inevitably have to split its AI and search crawler to level the playing field.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"When we talk to all the AI companies, they all say they’re willing to pay for content, and we think that’s fair. Except one. The one notable exception is Google."
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"'If you’re not spending billions of dollars on the content, but you are spending billions of dollars on the infrastructure, then you’re making a fundamental miscalculation about the value of what you’re doing,' said Thomson." @nypost.com nypost.com/2025/10/21/m...
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson says AI firms aren’t paying enough for content: ‘fundamental miscalculation’
Tech firms “need news to keep the AI engines fresh and so that immediacy that a news organization can provide is essential to them,” Thomson said.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"'If you’re not spending billions of dollars on the content, but you are spending billions of dollars on the infrastructure, then you’re making a fundamental miscalculation about the value of what you’re doing,' said Thomson." @nypost.com nypost.com/2025/10/21/m...
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How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news?
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October 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
How do people use generative AI in their daily lives? And how do they use it for news?
These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸
🔗 Full report
buff.ly/mv3Jc5r
🧵 Key findings in thread
These are two of the questions we explore in a new report, based on fresh survey data from 🇦🇷🇩🇰🇫🇷🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸
🔗 Full report
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"The RSL Standard supports a variety of licensing models, including free ones. Site owners can ask AI companies to pay a subscription or assign a pay-per-crawl fee through the RSL Standard, which companies must pay each time an AI bot crawls the website."
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"The RSL Standard supports a variety of licensing models, including free ones. Site owners can ask AI companies to pay a subscription or assign a pay-per-crawl fee through the RSL Standard, which companies must pay each time an AI bot crawls the website."
www.theverge.com/news/775072/...
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"Industry leaders are experimenting with new compensation models to ensure publishers are paid when their work fuels AI outputs." www.adweek.com/media/ai-fir...
3 Ways AI Could Pay Publishers—And Why They Might Not Work
Publishers are weighing how to get paid when AI uses their work, but even the most promising ideas have potential shortcomings
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August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"Industry leaders are experimenting with new compensation models to ensure publishers are paid when their work fuels AI outputs." www.adweek.com/media/ai-fir...
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"Though tech companies have been helping themselves with impunity to articles, books, recipes and endless other nuggets of information to build their models, many are simultaneously crafting licensing deals, particularly with established publishers." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Can the news industry stop AI theft? It might be a long shot.
The limited good news is that the fight has begun on multiple fronts.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Though tech companies have been helping themselves with impunity to articles, books, recipes and endless other nuggets of information to build their models, many are simultaneously crafting licensing deals, particularly with established publishers." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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"But when an entire article is scraped without compensation and regurgitated to someone who will then never look at that article, know where it came from, or find out who wrote it, that is not fair use. It is theft." - Danielle Coffey www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/34618...
To protect AI, Congress must regulate it - Washington Examiner
Congress should issue rules to protect the creators of the content that AI tools use — publishers, authors, journalists, artists, and creatives of all types
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July 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"But when an entire article is scraped without compensation and regurgitated to someone who will then never look at that article, know where it came from, or find out who wrote it, that is not fair use. It is theft." - Danielle Coffey www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/34618...
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The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way. www.wired.com/story/cloudf...
Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way. www.wired.com/story/cloudf...
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"If the AI industry is going to grow sustainably and responsibly, we need legislation to provide guardrails and clear rules about how to protect the creators of content that AI tools use — publishers, authors, journalists, artists, musicians and creatives of all types." nypost.com/2025/06/30/o...
‘Big beautiful’ AI rule means feds must act NOW to stop Big Tech’s abuses
We need clear federal rules to protect the creators of content that AI tools use — because right now, those professionals are AI’s victims.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"If the AI industry is going to grow sustainably and responsibly, we need legislation to provide guardrails and clear rules about how to protect the creators of content that AI tools use — publishers, authors, journalists, artists, musicians and creatives of all types." nypost.com/2025/06/30/o...
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UK regulators may force Google to open search engine to more competition as AI threat grows
UK regulators may force Google to open search engine to more competition as AI threat grows
Google may be forced by United Kingdom regulators to make changes to its search engine practices – including its controversial AI summary feature in search results, officials said Tuesday.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
UK regulators may force Google to open search engine to more competition as AI threat grows
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New from me: Racing to replace Google, AI firms send bots to scrape news in real time
super interesting new report from @tollbit.com offers data on the AI apocalypse coming for the web as people switch from search to chatbots
super interesting new report from @tollbit.com offers data on the AI apocalypse coming for the web as people switch from search to chatbots
‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New from me: Racing to replace Google, AI firms send bots to scrape news in real time
super interesting new report from @tollbit.com offers data on the AI apocalypse coming for the web as people switch from search to chatbots
super interesting new report from @tollbit.com offers data on the AI apocalypse coming for the web as people switch from search to chatbots
There's a loud and clear message on this New York Post paper. Stop AI theft. Make Big Tech pay for the content it takes.
June 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There's a loud and clear message on this New York Post paper. Stop AI theft. Make Big Tech pay for the content it takes.
"If AI companies’ theft drives creators out of business, everyone ends up worse off." - Danielle Coffey, News/Media Alliance President & CEO via @nypost.com nypost.com/2025/05/29/o...
The dirty secret Big Tech doesn’t want you to know: AI runs on theft
Most tech companies have made the conscious choice to steal others’ content to power their AI models and earn ad money — threatening critical sectors of the US economy.
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May 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"If AI companies’ theft drives creators out of business, everyone ends up worse off." - Danielle Coffey, News/Media Alliance President & CEO via @nypost.com nypost.com/2025/05/29/o...
The global AI market is expected to reach trillions of dollars by 2030. But the original content creators and publishers whose work fuels AI products are being left behind.
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Big Tech is stealing from writers, artists, journalists, and publishers to build AI programs. Stealing American content hurts everyone. Let’s stand together for fairness, transparency, and the future ...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The global AI market is expected to reach trillions of dollars by 2030. But the original content creators and publishers whose work fuels AI products are being left behind.
As a reminder, writers, artists, journalists, and publishers are the creative minds behind the content that AI programs generate – but they're not being compensated for their work. Thanks to Nisqually Valley News for joining us in the fight for a future of responsible AI. supportresponsibleai.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
As a reminder, writers, artists, journalists, and publishers are the creative minds behind the content that AI programs generate – but they're not being compensated for their work. Thanks to Nisqually Valley News for joining us in the fight for a future of responsible AI. supportresponsibleai.org
TribLIVE is joining our fight for creators and publishers. It's time to demand that Big Tech pays for the content it takes to fuel AI products. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
May 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
TribLIVE is joining our fight for creators and publishers. It's time to demand that Big Tech pays for the content it takes to fuel AI products. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
The Plain Dealer is joining our fight to hold Big Tech accountable. Creators deserve compensation for their work that fuels AI products, and you deserve quality, original content. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
April 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The Plain Dealer is joining our fight to hold Big Tech accountable. Creators deserve compensation for their work that fuels AI products, and you deserve quality, original content. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
The Bay City Times @mlive.com is standing up for the creators and publishers who deserve compensation when their work is used to fuel AI products. Together, we can demand accountability and transparency from Big Tech. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
April 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Bay City Times @mlive.com is standing up for the creators and publishers who deserve compensation when their work is used to fuel AI products. Together, we can demand accountability and transparency from Big Tech. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
@bostonglobe.com is joining hundreds of publishers in demanding a future of fair and responsible AI. Together, we can call on Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes from creators.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@bostonglobe.com is joining hundreds of publishers in demanding a future of fair and responsible AI. Together, we can call on Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes from creators.
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@businessinsider.com is joining our fight to ensure the public has access to reliable, high quality, and diverse content. It's time to demand transparency and accountability from the Big Tech companies who steal publishers' content to power AI tools. #SupportResponsibleAI
April 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@businessinsider.com is joining our fight to ensure the public has access to reliable, high quality, and diverse content. It's time to demand transparency and accountability from the Big Tech companies who steal publishers' content to power AI tools. #SupportResponsibleAI
Thanks to Grand Rapids Press for joining our fight to ensure a future of responsible AI. It's time for Big Tech to compensate the publishers and creators whose work powers the AI industry. #SupportResponsibleAI
April 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thanks to Grand Rapids Press for joining our fight to ensure a future of responsible AI. It's time for Big Tech to compensate the publishers and creators whose work powers the AI industry. #SupportResponsibleAI
The @miamiherald.com is taking a stand for the creators and publishers whose work powers AI products, calling on Washington to demand transparency and fairness from Big Tech. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
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April 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The @miamiherald.com is taking a stand for the creators and publishers whose work powers AI products, calling on Washington to demand transparency and fairness from Big Tech. #SupportResponsibleAI #FairAI
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Publishers are fighting back, calling on Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes. Join our movement to protect the writers, journalists, artists, and publishers who deserve compensation and transparency: bit.ly/43NcGSB
April 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Publishers are fighting back, calling on Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes. Join our movement to protect the writers, journalists, artists, and publishers who deserve compensation and transparency: bit.ly/43NcGSB