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Google Tests Publisher Payments as AI Search Cuts Into Website Traffic

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Google is experimenting with paying publishers when their work contributes to AI-generated search answers, but early payouts vary dramatically.

The company is running an invitation-only test that pays about 100 publishers when their content helps power AI answers, according to The Information, as relayed by The Verge.

The pilot, known as the AI Contribution Pilot, began less than a year ago and is being tracked through Google Search Console. Publishers are reportedly paid based on how significantly their content contributes to an AI-generated answer, rather than simply because their work is cited.

The reported payouts vary sharply. One publisher that joined early has earned more than $1 million annually, while another newer participant has received about $50,000 to...

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Apple Removes Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat From India App Store Following MeitY Order

Apple has removed Bitchat from its India App Store following a MeitY takedown demand under Section 69A of the IT Act. The notice does not specify the content considered illegal Bitchat, the offline messaging app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, can no longer be downloaded from Apple's

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Nearly 10,000 acres of Utah public land could host 456 nuclear reactors — enough power for 7-8 million homes, but…

* Project Beehive plans 456 reactors across more than 9,000 acres * The proposed 9.6GW is 2.4 times what Utah generates on average today * Power enough for 7 million homes will go to data centers instead Valar Atomics has filed a proposal to place 456 nuclear reactors on over

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I measured my sleep scores for a week with both the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Garmin Cirqa — here's how…

I've been wearing the Apple Watch Series 12 to bed every night for a week now, which means, after seven nights of calibration, I finally got the benefits of the revamped Vitals app and the new Readiness Score. The Watch has to learn your baseline metrics so it

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Apple Removes Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat From India App Store Following MeitY Order

Nearly 10,000 acres of Utah public land could host 456 nuclear reactors &mdash; enough power for 7-8 million homes, but…

I measured my sleep scores for a week with both the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Garmin Cirqa &mdash; here's how…

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Nearly 10,000 acres of Utah public land could host 456 nuclear reactors — enough power for 7-8 million homes, but…

I measured my sleep scores for a week with both the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Garmin Cirqa — here's how…