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Competition watchdog to investigate Meta terms for publishers and businesses
The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Facebook owner Meta over whether it is imposing “exploitative terms” on publishers and advertisers which breach competition rules. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Meta's…
Houdini's centennial spotlight: A newly published essay and a fresh fight over when and how he died
A century after his death, Harry Houdini remains a man we're still trying to learn more about. A rare essay by the iconic escape artist about magicians of the past has just been published for the first time, while a recent book revisits longtime…
Marvin R. Shanken, Longtime Publisher and Editor of Wine Spectator, Dies at 83
Marvin R. Shanken, the longtime editor and publisher of Wine Spectator magazine who was instrumental in elevating the profile of American wine business, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 83. Shanken started his career in 1972 when he bought a…
Meta Faces U.K. Antitrust Probe Over Publisher Content Use
Platforms faces an investigation from the U.K.'s competition regulator over potential new business terms that would allow the company to collect content from publishers to power its own products such as artificial intelligence tools. The…
Houdini's centennial spotlight: A newly published essay and a fresh fight over when and how he died
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AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic pledged on Friday to give media outlets and other websites a single way to prevent their content from being scraped to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, amid growing criticisms and legal battles from…
KRAFTON Presents Ludi 0.2 for Robots but Publishes No New Scores
KRAFTON, Inc. said its subsidiary Ludo Robotics presented Ludi 0.2, an updated robot intelligence system, at UC Berkeley on Oct. 30, describing gains in human interaction but releasing no scores for the version. The company says the update improves…
Book Piracy Is Going Automated as Publishers Fight Back
In March 2026, thirteen major publishers sued a website that aims to gather every book in the world. The case illustrates the current state of book piracy and explains why it is so difficult to stop. The following offers a simple look at what…
Glassnode Publishes Ninth Strategy Watch on Fund Returns and Capital Flows
Glassnode published Strategy Watch #9 on Oct. 30 as the ninth edition of its monthly report series. The analysis examines digital-asset fund returns, structured-product trends and shifts in allocator positioning. It also tracks capital flows across…
UK's CMA opens investigation into Meta's terms for publishers and advertisers
By Thomson Reuters Oct 30, 2026 | 7:16 AM LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing exploitative terms on publishers and…
People magazine publisher slashes 195 jobs as print and web businesses face shake-up
People Inc., the publishing giant behind People magazine, is laying off 195 employees — roughly 6% of its workforce — with most of the cuts hitting its print and legacy web businesses, according to an internal memo obtained by The…
AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping
SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic pledged on Friday (Oct 31) to give media outlets and other websites a single way to prevent their content from being scraped to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, amid growing…
Meta Faces UK Antitrust Investigation Over Plans to Use Publishers' Content
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… Britain's competition regulator has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta over proposed business terms that could allow the company to collect publishers' website content for its own products…
UK's CMA opens investigation into Meta's terms for publishers and advertisers
30 Oct 2026 07:16PM (Updated: 30 Oct 2026 07:52PM) LONDON, Oct 30: Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to…
OpenAI Published the Rules for Its Agents and the Alarms That Watch Them
For anyone building or using autonomous software, the latest updates from OpenAI provide a clearer look at how the company intends to govern its models and catch them when they go rogue. An agent is a program that runs tasks on its own; both…
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