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ChatGPT's traffic surge is good news for brands. For publishers, it's complicated
OpenAI made a change to how ChatGPT links to websites in the spring, and barely anybody noticed. Starting on May 7, ChatGPT began sending considerably more traffic to websites. Referrals jumped 157% overnight and have stayed there, according to new…
China's premier digital publishing expo to debut cultural gaming section
A staff member demonstrates AIGC capabilities of Wukong image software at ZGC Science Fiction Industry Innovation Center in Shijingshan District, Beijing, capital of China, June 20, 2025. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong) China's premier digital publishing…
AI Copyright Law: How Publishers Can Manage Risks And Ensure Transparency
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the publishing landscape, a new report underscores the critical need for publishers to implement robust governance and transparency measures to navigate the evolving AI copyright framework and protect…
Plagiarist prof Jason Arday's life story is published tomorrow, and it gets more unbelievable by the page
A Cambridge University professor with an unbelievable story of overcoming systemic oppression skyrocketed to stardom. Then, people started to realize his story actually was unbelieveable — in the true sense of the word — and his…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Just Published a 6,500 Word Essay Taking Direct Aim at OpenAI and Anthropic
The artificial intelligence war shows no signs of slowing. Earlier on Aug. 10, Meta Platforms (META +0.62%) CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a 6,500-word essay that appears to take direct aim at the large language model (LLM) leaders OpenAI and…
Hinge to publish first audiobook based on true love stories
Nicola Dinan © Stuart Simpson Hinge has announced it will release its first ever audiobook as part of its ongoing No Ordinary Love campaign, to “celebrate the unexpected twists of real love stories”. The campaign originated as a…
World Rugby rankings change published as Wales reinstatement announced
World Rugby has announced changes to the global rankings as it confirmed Wales have climbed back into the world's top 10 for the first time in more than two years despite not playing a single minute of rugby. Steve Tandy's side have been handed a…
Common Crawl Published a Manual for Being Visible to AI. I Automated It. - Suganthan
Every month, a nonprofit called Common Crawl fetches over 2 billion web pages and gives the copy away to anyone who wants it. That free archive is where most AI training data starts. When Mozilla audited the LLMs released between 2019 and 2023, 64%…
America's manufacturing future starts with industrial hemp | Opinion
America is making a costly mistake by treating industrial hemp as just another crop. It is an industrial material that can strengthen manufacturing, create jobs, reduce dependence on imported raw materials, and help build more resilient supply…
Publisher's Platform: A White House adviser says the Cyclospora outbreak is manufactured hysteria. Taco Bell's parent company is on his list of culprits.
Sarah Despres and Susan Mayne got to this before I did, on LinkedIn, and they answered it better than I would have. Credit where it belongs. Both have been steady, sourced, unglamorous voices through this outbreak while a great many louder people…
Publishers maintaining clear AI-use records better placed to manage legal, commercial risks: Report
Publishers that maintain clear records, adopt carefully drafted AI-specific provisions and require transparent disclosure of AI use will be better placed to manage legal and commercial risks, as the copyright framework around artificial…
Anthropic rolled out a feature that stops undetected AI-generated writing
It's going to get a lot harder to let Claude be a ghostwriter for everything from novels to homework. On Monday, Anthropic said new Claude models will embed an 'imperceptible watermark' directly into AI-generated text. The watermark doesn't change…
Six ATS platforms publish their job boards as open JSON. Here are the endpoints.
Most 'job scraping' tutorials teach you to render a careers page in a headless browser and pick apart the HTML. For the majority of company career pages, that is unnecessary. The page you are trying to scrape is itself a client-side app calling a…
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley's AI labs have built the world's best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their…
GTA 6 sales predicted, and the numbers will absolutely blow your mind
We always knew that GTA 6 was going to sell an absolute metric tonne of copies, but early revenue estimates from publisher Take-Two have blown even our most wild predictions out of the water. As revealed in a recent earnings report, Take-Two claims…
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