Author: Sara Guaglione

Another publisher is taking OpenAI to court.

Ziff Davis is the latest media company to sue the tech company over copyright infringement, but the lawsuit highlights a broader reality: Publishers still have no reliable way to stop AI companies from scraping their content for free.

Despite growing legal pressure, the web has already been mined. Large language models like ChatGPT were trained on vast amounts of internet data, much of it scraped before publishers began pushing back. And while tools like robots.txt files, paywalls and AI-blocking tags have since emerged, many publishers admit it’s very difficult to enforce control across every bot — especially as some ignore standard protocols or mask their identities.

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The remedies phase of the Google search antitrust trial is forcing Google to contemplate the unthinkable: potentially parting ways with the world’s most popular browser, Chrome.

Unsurprisingly, a crowd of would-be buyers is already lining up. Their reasons for wanting Chrome, and how they might pay for it, are as varied as the bidders themselves. Regardless of who buys it — if anyone even does — the browser’s fate will reshape the next era of AI, advertising, and search. (During the Google search antitrust trial, the company is arguing against the Justice Department’s proposal of forced divesture and others remedies, and instead has proposed a separate slate of remedies.)

Here’s the rundown on some of the potential contenders and what witnesses have said about the potential impact of a sell-off.

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