World
Reddit fell 29% after warning that Google’s AI search is cutting the referral traffic it depends on
The warning matters far beyond Reddit. Referral traffic from search is the business model of almost every site on the open web.
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World
A new French literary prize is only for AI-assisted books, and you must submit your prompts with the manuscript
A month after France’s Goncourt prize dropped a novel over AI allegations, three entrepreneurs have created an award that requires the…
Technology
France’s biggest literary prize dropped a bestselling novel over an AI accusation made by an anonymous account
The Académie Goncourt removed Thelyson Orelien’s debut from its longlist after an X account ran it through a detection tool. He denies…
Technology
Google now answers 75% of searches without a click, and AI crawlers take 6,000 pages for every visitor they send — Cloudflare’s CEO says the web’s business model is collapsing
For fifteen years the deal was simple: let Google copy your page and it sends you readers. Matthew Prince, whose company sees a fifth of…