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Amazon and Microsoft launch competing AI content marketplaces, turning the "Wild West" of data scraping into a multi-billion dollar licensing frontier.
Google faces an EU antitrust complaint from publishers alleging its AI Overviews exploit content for summaries, causing traffic/revenue loss and forcing publishers to accept terms or lose search visibility.
Cloudflare launches "Pay Per Crawl," allowing websites to charge AI companies for content scraping. Publishers can set prices, aiming for a new economic model for the web.
Google is reportedly forcing publishers to share data for AI Overviews or risk losing search traffic, sparking concerns over content control and monetization.