Publishers

Publishers are companies or organizations that create and distribute content, such as news articles, books, and games, to the public.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to disputes with tech giants like Apple over compensation for news content and concerning trends like shutting down their own online games.

Latest on Publishers

• Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
• Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news
• Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report
• Apple Discusses Paying Publishers to Improve Siri
• Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers
• Publishers maintaining clear AI-use records better placed to manage legal, commercial risks: Report
• Anthropic just agreed to pay $1.5 billion for training data it never licensed
• Google and Meta have built dominant advertising and monetization platforms that publishers say function like "Death Stars" in controlling digital media economics
• Publishers are implementing access restrictions similar to the Star Wars cantina scene to block AI agents from scraping their content
• the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training
• Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site's owner says otherwise. The pitch is simple: stop giving the web away for free.
• Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.

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