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Publishers face an existential crisis as artificial intelligence companies extract their content without providing fair compensation, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned at an event in Cannes. Christine Wang reported for Axios. Prince revealed striking statistics about the imbalance between content scraping and traffic referrals. Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it …
Artificial intelligence tools excel at automating routine tasks but fail to deliver the scientific breakthroughs needed for sustained economic growth, according to Carl Benedikt Frey from Oxford University. Writing in the Financial Times, Frey argues that despite decades of technological advancement, labor productivity growth has declined from 2 percent annually in the 1990s to 0.8 …
Anthropic has published detailed insights into how it built Claude’s research capabilities, revealing that its multi-agent system outperforms single-agent approaches by 90.2%. The post was written by Jeremy Hadfield, Barry Zhang, Kenneth Lien, Florian Scholz, Jeremy Fox, and Daniel Ford from Anthropic. The research feature allows Claude to search across the web, Google Workspace, and …
Sean Goedecke predicts that AI language models will eventually cause a mass-casualty disaster, drawing parallels to early transportation accidents. The author notes that railways took 17 years to produce their first major disaster, while aviation took 11 years. ChatGPT launched in November 2022, making the timeline significant. He identifies AI agents as the most likely …
Three prominent news organizations are successfully using artificial intelligence to generate article summaries for their readers. The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News have implemented AI-powered summary features to serve busy audiences seeking quick information digests. Sarah Scire reports on these developments for the journalism industry publication Nieman Lab. Yahoo News introduced “Key Takeaways” …
Artificial intelligence companies are deploying a new generation of bots that scrape web content in real time to provide users with instant summaries instead of traditional search results. Traffic from these retrieval bots surged 49 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the previous quarter, according to data from TollBit, a startup that …
The internet faces a fundamental transformation as artificial intelligence agents evolve from passive assistants to active decision-makers, according to technology expert Justin Westcott from Edelman. Writing for VentureBeat, Westcott argues that the current web design built for human users will become obsolete as AI agents take over routine digital tasks. Today’s AI systems like ChatGPT, …
News publishers are experiencing dramatic traffic declines as Google’s artificial intelligence features replace traditional search results. Major outlets report losing more than half their search-driven visitors over the past three years. Isabella Simonetti and Katherine Blunt report in The Wall Street Journal that Google’s AI Overviews and new AI Mode are fundamentally changing how users …
Predictions that artificial intelligence will eliminate 20 to 50 percent of jobs lack evidence and contradict historical patterns, writes Rand Fishkin from SparkToro. The entrepreneur examined hundreds of studies spanning centuries of technological change and found no support for mass job displacement claims. Fishkin’s research reveals that previous technologies created more employment opportunities than they …
Tech companies are making AI chatbots more engaging to keep users talking longer, but this approach could lead to harmful consequences. Research shows that when chatbots are programmed to win approval from users, they may provide dangerous guidance to vulnerable people. The study was conducted by researchers including academics and Google’s head of AI safety, …