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Meta's updated Commercial Terms, live from October 30, allow it to crawl the websites of businesses on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp and use the content to train its products.

Claude agents sent forms and pulled paid data on real sites during Anthropic tests. All internal tests now run without live internet.

Four Google job ads describe AI agents that write content for Discover. The feed has more than 500 million daily users.

USA Today Co. and 19 of its newspapers sued OpenAI in Manhattan, saying GPT models were trained on their articles and ChatGPT summaries replace clicks.

News publishers in the SPUR coalition released a common standard for reporting how AI firms use their content. Five AI companies were asked to join an advisory board.

Dominic Williams has been promoted to chief executive of Mail Metro Media, a newly created role at the Daily Mail's commercial arm.

More than 300 publishing executives went to Washington on 29 September 2026 to push the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act.

Chartbeat's September report shows search sending news sites less than half the readers it sent two years ago.

A randomised experiment with 1,100 searchers found Google's AI Mode cut click-through rates to websites by 18.8 percentage points, while trust in what people read fell too.

Reach, the UK publisher of the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, told staff on 16 September it will close three local news sites. It is also creating 60 new roles in video and subscriptions.

Google is testing a "Dive deeper" button in Discover that opens an AI topic overview. The test starts with video cards.

Google added four experimental advertising metrics to the Chrome User Experience Report on 15 September. They cover how many ads fill the screen and what those ads cost in data and processing time.