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Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers

Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products “in the months ahead”. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September, for the first episode of the relaunched […]

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Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic

Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic had been wrong. They were wrong because bots grew faster than he expected. […]

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YouTube and Meta will now run ads for Gibney’s ‘Musk’ documentary

YouTube and Meta will now run paid ads for Musk, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday. Both had refused the trailer ad. TikTok and X are still not running it. The outlet first reported the refusals on Friday. Bleecker Street, the film’s US distributor, opens it in cinemas on […]

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France’s Goncourt prize drops a novel over claims AI wrote it

The Académie Goncourt has dropped Thélyson Orélien’s novel C’était ça ou mourir from the first selection for France’s top literary prize. In a statement on Friday, the academy cited plagiarism by the author and analyses showing that AI had most likely written most of the book. Orélien denies using AI, Philip Oltermann reported for the […]

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Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object

Netflix’s new reality competition, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, uses an AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice, and viewers have pushed back. The voice narrates the show and explains the rules to contestants. Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, died in 2016. The show premiered on 23 September. The AI voice was made […]

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Hollywood studios want film graduates who already use AI, Semafor reports

Hollywood studios are turning to film schools for graduates who already know how to use AI video tools, rather than training their own staff, Semafor reported on Thursday. “How do we find people who already know how to use this?” studios are now asking, Runway chief executive Cristóbal Valenzuela told Semafor. Runway, which makes AI tools […]

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ChatGPT now sends 95.1% of AI referral traffic to websites, BrightEdge says

ChatGPT sent 95.1% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites in August, its highest share this year, according to new data from BrightEdge. The search marketing company said referral traffic from ChatGPT grew 101% between January and August. Gemini came second in August with 2.4%, BrightEdge said. Perplexity had 1.1% and Claude 0.8%. […]

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Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers

Yahoo will keep its AI answer engine Scout full of links back to publishers, CEO Jim Lanzone said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam. He said micropayment deals will not pay publishers enough, and that Yahoo prefers search advertising instead. Lanzone said links serve two purposes. They let people check sources […]

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DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW

The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government’s lawyers justified President Donald Trump’s decision to ban the three organizations. They stated that […]

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A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […]

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