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David Buttle
Named in AI Lately's reporting below.
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Arts & Media
Paid by the Answer
Google has quietly started paying a few dozen publishers when their work shapes an AI answer, a small and secret check for the very traffic its own AI summaries have been draining away.
Policy & Regulation
Theft, Trillions and a Trust Architecture
A Microsoft memo calls AI training theft, Anthropic's valuation drops before its IPO, and three plans to control AI agents landed the same week.
Arts & Media
Microsoft Orders Secrecy on Its News Scraper
Microsoft told employees to keep a news-scraping project for OpenAI secret, and its own scientist called the practice history's largest labor theft.