Publishing trends for 2026: Tech platforms overtake publishers as global news source
Key insights from the 2026 Digital News Report on UK and global publishing trends.
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Generative AI and other uses of artificial intelligence in publishing. Latest news, insight, comment and analysis.
Publishers to bill AI firms for unwanted scraping – and take them to court if they don’t pay
Search-only contracts added to website terms open up new front in war with AI companies.
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SPUR publishes ‘common language’ for tracking AI use of publisher content
Publisher coalition invites feedback on framework which could drive AI payments for content.
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US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive
Common Crawl Foundation database underpins many AI models.
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Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Brazil’s Folha settles OpenAI lawsuit with commercial deal
Plus: New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity and Google signs non-licensing AI deals.
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AI in journalism: Live tracker of scandals and mistakes
Round-up of the main cases where AI use in journalism has gone wrong.
By AI licensing coalition SPUR in huge expansion
Some 20 new publishers around the world join ‘Nato for news’ AI protection group.
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UK regulator tells Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews
Tech giant says it will roll out global changes giving publishers control over AI use of their content.
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