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The Athletic invests in live blogs, video to insulate sports coverage from AI scraping

As the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics collide this week, The New York Times-owned publication The Athletic is playing up coverage that is harder for AI bots to lift: live blogs and video.  At least, that’s the hope. While live blogs have been around for years, The Athletic sees live formats as a way

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In Graphic Detail: The scale of the challenge facing publishers, politicians eager to damage Google’s adland dominance

Last week, Google’s parent company Alphabet reported that 2025 revenue was an eye-popping $403 billion, making the last 123 months its highest-earning year – almost $114 billion in Q4 alone – with these sums representing a 15% and 12% respective annual increase. But as dollar bills stacked up, so did the legal citations. All this

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