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Meta Removes Terms Provision Legal Experts Said Could Allow AI Scraping

Oct 18, 2026

TechCrunch

Meta removes a provision from its commercial terms of use that legal experts told Nieman Lab could let it scrape business account domains and URLs to train its AI models. The Verge reports the removal. A Meta spokesperson says the terms only covered ads and business products and that crawling practices do not change.

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Google Says Over 400 Publications Join News AI Pilot, Adding CNN and Axios

Oct 16, 2026

Google

Google says more than 400 news publications now participate in its News AI pilot program, expanded from launch partners including The Washington Post. New partners include Axios, CNN, The Financial Times, Forbes, the Texas Tribune and Post and Courier. Google pays publishers for content used in AI features like article overviews and audio briefings.

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Shorenstein Center Says Men Named in AI Headlines 14.6 Times as Often as Women

Oct 16, 2026

The Shorenstein Center

Harvard's Shorenstein Center reports women use AI less than men and appear far less in AI news. In a July 2026 survey of 5,403 U.S. adults, 29% of women said they had never used AI, versus 22% of men. Men are named in AI headlines 14.6 times as often as women.

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SPUR Adds the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Economist, Topping 80 Members

Oct 14, 2026

The Deep View

SPUR added more than 40 members on Tuesday, including The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Economist, bringing the coalition to 80 members across more than 20 countries. Formed in February 2026, SPUR pushes licensing as the default for AI use of copyrighted media. It published a Content Telemetry Standard to track training data.

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Anthropic Urges Australia to Allow AI Training on Copyrighted Works Through Opt-Out System

Oct 02, 2026

the Guardian

Anthropic now urges Australia to let AI firms train on copyrighted works unless rightsholders opt out, while ABC and SBS demand that AI companies face media-style copyright, defamation and privacy rules and warn robots.txt exclusions are easily bypassed.

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Unsealed Filings Show Microsoft Director Calls AI News Scraping "Largest Theft of Labor in Human History"

Sep 17, 2026

Ars Technica

Unsealed court filings reveal Microsoft director Brent Hecht calls AI news scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history," while records show some publisher click-through rates fall 83–93% and OpenAI allegedly trains on a 1.8 million-article New York Times dataset despite internal concerns.

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Developer launches x402 paywall charging AI agents $0.01 per page as Google confirms publisher AI-payment pilot

Sep 16, 2026

Suganthan Mohanadasan

Developer Suganthan Mohanadasan launches a live x402 paywall that charges AI agents $0.01 per page, while Google confirms a publisher-payment pilot for content that materially contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, or Gemini answers.

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Apple Launches 'Apple Reference Image' on iPhone 18 Pro to Verify Photo Authenticity

Sep 10, 2026

TechCrunch

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro launches a groundbreaking 'Apple Reference Image' feature that uses signed sensor data and Private Cloud Compute to create an unalterable digital negative, verifying photo authenticity for photojournalists, while also debuting a 48-megapixel camera with a revolutionary variable aperture system and AI-generated image detection support.

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Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Unauthorized Use of Journalism to Train AI

Sep 06, 2026

TechCrunch

The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using their journalism without permission to train AI models, warning that generative AI risks destroying the very news organizations whose content it consumes — a striking legal battle made more complex by Microsoft's prior funding of Seattle Times journalism projects.

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Thomson Reuters Launches Its First Proprietary AI Model, 'Thomson,' Built on Decades of Legal and Financial Data for Just $40 Million

Aug 25, 2026

The Deep View

Thomson Reuters launches 'Thomson,' its first proprietary AI model trained on decades of Westlaw, Reuters, and financial data, costing just $40 million to develop while reportedly matching frontier model performance — now live in CoCounsel Legal.

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