EU launches antitrust probe into Google's AI search tools | TechCrunch
The European Commission is probing whether Google used publishers' web and YouTube content without compensation to power AI summaries, potentially breaching EU competition law.
People Inc forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops | TechCrunch
People Inc. signed a Microsoft AI licensing deal to join a pay-per-use publisher content marketplace, with Microsoft Copilot as the first buyer and publishers paid for content use.
Cloudflare has announced a revolutionary policy where AI crawlers must pay content creators for the data they take, marking a shift in internet practices.