9to5google

Google’s AI Mode is ‘the definition of theft,’ publishers say, opt-out was considered

The AI takeover of Search is in full swing, especially as Google’s new AI Mode is going live for all US users. But for publishers, this continues the existential crisis around how Google Search is ...
Digiday

Google’s forced AI opt out: what changes — and what doesn’t — for publishers

The U.K’.s Competition Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed new rules to give publishers more control over how Google uses their content in AI features like its AI Overviews. The upshot: publishers ...
NPR

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI

A group of more than 70 authors including Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire and Lauren Groff released an open letter on Friday about the use of AI on the literary website Lit Hub. It asked publishing ...