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02Oct/26

Google Quietly Tests AI Payouts for Publishers

October 2, 2026Media.google, Alphabet Inc., AOL, Artificial intelligence, Bing, David Buttle, Digital media, Internet search engines, Luke Stillman, Online advertising, OpenAI, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Small and Mid-Sized Publishers Join Google Pilot to Monetize Content Used in Gemini

Fri 02 Oct 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — Google has quietly rolled out an “AI contribution pilot” that pays web publishers when their material significantly informs AI-generated answers across Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI mode. Accessible directly within Google Search Console, the program adds an AI earnings widget displaying a monthly payout, though Google keeps the specific calculation methods undisclosed in what industry insiders describe as a “black box”. Unlike earlier high-profile lump-sum deals negotiated with major news organizations, this pay-per-value scheme reaches a broader group of small and mid-sized publishers seeking new revenue streams as traditional search referral traffic declines. While participating publishers appreciate the open dialogue and the establishment of a precedent for AI content compensation, critics caution that early returns are minimal and argue the initiative functions primarily as a strategic hedge to reduce Google’s legal, regulatory, and reputational risks. Continue reading →

03Apr/23

AI will soon become impossible for humans to comprehend – the story of neural networks tells us why

April 3, 2023InnovationAcademic disciplines, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Artificial neural networks, Beatrice Fazi, bell laboratories, Bing, Carver Mead, Cognitive science, Computational neuroscience, Creative Commons, Cybernetics, David Beer, David Rumelhart, Deep learning, Edward Rosenfeld, Emerging technologies, Harry Collins, IBM, Jack D. Cowan, James Anderson, Jay McClelland, Katherine Hayles, Larry Hardesty, Leon N. Cooper, London, Machine learning, Mead, Microsoft, Neural network, Richard Waters, SHUTTERSTOCK, Stephen Grossberg, Taina Bucher, Teuvo Kohonen, Walter J. Freeman, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch, Wilfred Taylor, Yann LeCunadmin

David Beer, University of York

In 1956, during a year-long trip to London and in his early 20s, the mathematician and theoretical biologist Jack D. Cowan visited Wilfred Taylor and his strange new “learning machine”. On his arrival he was baffled by the “huge bank of apparatus” that confronted him. Cowan could only stand by and watch “the machine doing its thing”. The thing it appeared to be doing was performing an “associative memory scheme” – it seemed to be able to learn how to find connections and retrieve data.

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24Mar/23

OpenAI: Ethics and intelligence

March 24, 2023InnovationAdam Smith Tech, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Bing, Elon Musk, Existential risk from artificial general intelligence, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, OpenAI, Paris, Sam Altman, Technologyadmin

By Adam Smith | Tech correspondent

OpenAI rolled out GPT-4 last week, the new artificial intelligence service that powers ChatGPT.

The main addition to the new model is that it can now “understand” images – writing captions and descriptions, as well as explaining jokes behind memes – and write computer code. Continue reading →

10Feb/23

Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

February 10, 2023Internet.google, ALPHABET, Alphabet Inc., Articles, Artificial intelligence, Baidu, Bing, Blake Lemoine, Chatbot, Creative Commons, duckduckgo, Google Search, Instant messaging, Internet bot, Internet search engines, LaMDA, Larry Page, Microsoft, Natural language parsing, Sergey Brin, Toby Walsh, Victoria, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney

Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice.

After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good ’un. But not for much longer.

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