Stockholm-based Miracly publicly launched with a $2 million pre-seed round led by Beenext Ventures and Lotus, alongside a Swedish family office and angel…
Via e27 ↗ · Oct 16 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO, Law & Money
Which AI search bot a site lets in depends, on AEO Wire's crawler panel, on whether the site has a licensing deal with OpenAI.
Via AEO Wire crawler panel ↗ · Oct 19 · · AEO, Engines, Law & Money
Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity over its Comet shopping agent — the case the wire covered Aug 5, when the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court's order…
Via The Fashion Law ↗ · Oct 16 · · Law & Money
Google's News AI pilot — a licensing program specific to Google News, distinct from the Search Console-based AI contribution pilot the wire has tracked…
Via Google ↗ · Oct 15 · · Google Search, Law & Money
Meta edited its commercial terms, which take effect Oct 30, after Nieman Lab and legal experts warned the original wording could let Meta scrape news…
Via The Verge ↗ · Oct 17 · · Law & Money
In October 9 filings in Manhattan federal court, Reddit asked Judge Paul A.
Via Reuters ↗ · Oct 13 · · Law & Money
SPUR, the publisher coalition behind the Content Telemetry standard the wire covered at its October 2 release, added more than 40 new members, per its own…
Via The SPUR Coalition ↗ · Oct 13 · · Law & Money
CEOs and editors of eight UK national news outlets — including Guardian Media Group, The Sun, The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Financial…
Via News Media Association ↗ · Oct 15 · · Law & Money
News/Media Alliance, a U.S. publisher trade group, told the UK's Competition and Markets Authority on October 9 that AI assistants and chatbots should be…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Oct 13 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) agreed on October 5, 2026 to acquire Senso, the Toronto-based, Y Combinator-backed AI engineering startup whose technology…
Via Zeta Global ↗ · Oct 5 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money, GEO
USA Today Co. and 13 affiliated newspaper entities sued OpenAI on Oct. 8 in the Southern District of New York, alleging the company trained GPT models on…
Via The Verge AI ↗ · Oct 8 · · Law & Money
News/Media Alliance sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on October 7 asking them to investigate Google's "site…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Oct 8 · · Law & Money, Google Search, SEO
SPUR — a publisher coalition formed in March 2026 that includes the Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Sky, the Times of London, Mediahuis and the Associated…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 2 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money
The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a Data Portability Conduct Requirement on Google's general search services on June 17, 2026 — the same…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Oct 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust claims that Penske Media and Chegg brought against Google over AI Overviews, in a September 30 ruling.
Via Press Gazette AI ↗ · Oct 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Google is paying roughly 100 publishers less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue through its AI contribution pilot, The Information reported, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, Law & Money, AEO
The European Commission opened a targeted consultation on Sept. 29 on "a better copyright environment for creativity and innovation," running through Nov.…
Via EU Commission Digital ↗ · Sep 29 · · Law & Money
The New York Times and other News Plaintiffs filed a response on Sept. 28 to the Justice Department's Sept. 1 Statement of Interest in In re OpenAI…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Sep 29 · · Law & Money
EMARKETER has acquired the research arm of RetailX, taking on its research team and tools — including the UK500 ranking of top UK ecommerce retailers and…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 25 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money, AEO
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Ads in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, extending the ad platform to more than…
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Sep 23 · · Engines, Law & Money
The UK Competition and Markets Authority published strengthened proposals for a "user choice conduct requirement" that would let Android and Chrome users…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Sep 23 · · Law & Money, Google Search, Engines
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">El País blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot ·…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 21 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
Anthropic has moved to dismiss copyright claims brought by authors who opted out of the Bartz class-action settlement in Shakespeare v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 19 · · Law & Money
Times Publishing Company, the corporate publisher of the Tampa Bay Times, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Sept. 16 in the Southern District of New York…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 16 · · Law & Money
Authors and publishers who declined the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 15 · · Law & Money
Summary judgment briefing — the filings asking a judge to rule without a trial — is complete in Concord Music v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 15 · · Law & Money
Google is piloting a program that pays a small group of publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to an AI-generated answer in Gemini, AI…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 14 · · Google Search, Law & Money, AEO
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a claim that GitHub's Copilot coding assistant violated copyright law by stripping copyright management…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 16 · · Law & Money
Anthropic filed its opposition to Daniel Benjamin Gilbert's motion to dismiss the company's fair-use counterclaim in his pro se copyright suit over his…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 11 · · Law & Money
Adform has joined OpenAI's technology platform partner roster for ChatGPT Ads, giving its clients a way to manage ChatGPT campaigns alongside their other…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 11 · · Engines, Law & Money
Katelyn Gray filed a shareholder derivative suit against Satya Nadella, other Microsoft directors and officers, and Microsoft itself on Sept. 9 in the…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 9 · · Law & Money
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a joint copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Sept. 4 in the Southern District of New York, the same day…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 5 · · Law & Money, SEO
ROSS Intelligence filed a Rule 28(j) letter of new authority with the Third Circuit on Sept. 4, pointing the panel to the U.S. Department of Justice's…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 4 · · Law & Money
The European Commission fined Alphabet €460 million on July 23, 2026, ruling under Article 6(5) of the Digital Markets Act that Google favored nine of its…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Class counsel in the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 2 · · Law & Money
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest on Sept. 1 in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, before Judge Sidney Stein…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 2 · · Law & Money
ChatGPT Ads reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days after launch, per OpenAI.
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Aug 31 · · Engines, Law & Money
The European Commission said Monday it designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the EU's Digital Services Act, alongside Reddit…
Via EU Commission Digital ↗ · Aug 31 · · Law & Money, Engines
Sony Music Publishing sued Anthropic in the Northern District of California on August 28, alleging direct copyright infringement via torrenting…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 29 · · Law & Money
Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, proceeding pro se in his copyright suit against Anthropic after opting out of the Bartz class settlement, has filed a covenant…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
Perplexity has raised a First Amendment defense in Reddit's DMCA suit against it and SerpApi, following the same move Anthropic made in the Gilbert…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
News/Media Alliance, the Association of American Publishers, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers filed a joint…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
SerpApi filed a motion on August 28 to dismiss Google's First Amended Complaint, per Chat GPT Is Eating the World.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on its First Amendment challenge to the U.S. Department of War's designation of the company as a "supply…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
The Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 27 · · Law & Money
Google Search Console carries a Search generative AI control under Settings that takes a site out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in…
Via Google Search Console Help ↗ · Aug 27 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta — who previously ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in search — said at a Tuesday hearing that Google's use of…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 26 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge denied Google's request for attorneys' fees after publishers Cengage and Hachette withdrew their motion to intervene in the multidistrict…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
Perplexity asked a court to dismiss Counts II through V of CNN's copyright complaint — everything except the claims tied to Perplexity's training-data…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
wikiHow filed a copyright suit against OpenAI, alleging infringement in both OpenAI's training inputs and its responses to user queries, plus vicarious…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
Anthropic has filed an amended Answer to the copyright complaint from Daniel Gilbert, author of "Hacking World of Warcraft," who opted out of the Bartz…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 20 · · Law & Money
The American Federation of Musicians has dropped its lawsuit against Warner Music Group, while its claims against Universal Music Group continue, per Chat…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 20 · · Law & Money
A First Amended Complaint in Shakespeare v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 19 · · Law & Money
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads into 31 additional European markets on Aug. 19, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy, bringing the pilot to roughly 40…
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Law & Money
The Publishers' Coordination Counsel has filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit challenging the denial of its attorneys' fee award in the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 19 · · Law & Money
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% from February through mid-August 2026, compared with the period when its free 12-month Pro offer via Airtel was…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Law & Money
OpenAI added Mexico and Brazil to ChatGPT Ads on August 17, its first Spanish- and Portuguese-language markets, bringing the total to nine countries, per…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Engines, Law & Money
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to the European Economic Area and Switzerland later this month, limited to Free and Go plans with personalized targeting…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 16 · · Engines, Law & Money
Textbook author Michael Sullivan and other writers sued OpenAI for copyright infringement in the Southern District of New York on August 14, alleging…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 14 · · Law & Money
Anthropic began embedding invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and signed provenance metadata in generated files on August 2, 2026, to comply…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 11 · · Engines, Law & Money
The Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG), representing nearly 300 French newspapers, filed a complaint with France's competition authority…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
Google filed a First Amended Complaint against scraper SerpApi on August 11, adding new allegations to try to revive the DMCA anti-circumvention claim…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money
Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, and Asad Ramzanali, a former White House OSTP official, filed a 34-page amicus brief on August 4…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 8 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge overseeing the consolidated In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation denied the New York Times, Daily News, and Ziff Davis leave to…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 7 · · Law & Money
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity AI's agentic browser Comet from operating on Amazon.com…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 5 · · Law & Money
People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel told Digiday the publisher won't cut off Google's AI crawlers, saying doing so "would turn off search" and the company isn't…
Via Digiday Media ↗ · Aug 4 · · Law & Money, SEO
Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, H.R.
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Tools & Vendors
IAB Australia published version 1.0 of its Bots and Crawler Guidance and Decision Matrix on July 22, 2026, unveiling it at the Discovery: AI and Search…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money
The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a Publisher Conduct Requirement on Google on June 3, 2026, under its digital markets regime — a legally…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Jul 29 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told investors on the company's Q2 earnings call that Google's AI Overviews have "yet to make a similar level of positive impact"…
Via Ars Technica AI ↗ · Aug 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied Perplexity and SerpApi's motions to dismiss Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims, per Ars…
Via Ars Technica AI ↗ · Jul 31 · · Law & Money
A federal judge dismissed most of Google's DMCA anti-circumvention claims against scraper SerpApi, ruling that SearchGuard, Google's anti-bot system…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 28 · · Law & Money
Google's AI Overviews support documentation states that signed-in users' search interactions, alongside feedback and human review, are used to improve…
Via Google AI Overviews documentation ↗ · Jul 24 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
Alphabet reported Q2 Search revenue of $63.27 billion, up 17% year over year — the first deceleration after four quarters of accelerating growth, with…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A proposed class action alleges Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization, joining an unusually crowded month of AI-training…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 17 · · Law & Money
