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Publishing executives from Forbes, Dotdash Meredith, BuzzFeed and other companies detail how they're using AI in 2025, from how they're building AI tools and using them internally and externally, to the guardrails they have in place and the future of AI.

Jessica Chan is a one-woman team at Perplexity with quite the task at hand: convince publishers that Perplexity has something to offer them, at a time when media companies are increasingly seeking litigation against AI tech companies for copyright infringement.

To many video creators — particularly those with less of a TikTok presence — the brief takedown of CapCut on Jan. 18 and 19 came as a surprise. Most news reports about the impending ban were laser-focused on the short-form video app itself, leaving many observers unaware of the connection between the two apps.

Data shows the TikTok ban in the U.S. didn't have much of an effect on publishers' site traffic, while publishers focus efforts on their onsite short-form video strategies.

Publishers are optimistic about this year in some important ways, but there are also some things they don't feel optimistic about.

As T-Mobile prepares to write a $600 million check to get into the OOH sector, can it succeed where others have failed?

The copyright infringement trial between The New York Times and OpenAI kicked off in a federal court hearing on Tuesday. Here's what both parties argued.

Publishers said revenues were up last year and media companies had a successful 2024 — but that success didn't extend to the media industry as a whole.

The OOH media specialist has held multiple discussions with buyers as the U.S. telco harbors advertising ambitions long since eschewed by rivals.

This week’s Media Briefing hones in on the business areas that publishing execs say they will prioritize this year – and what they are leaving behind in 2024.

Waseem Al Sheikh, Writer's co-founder and chief technology officer, talks about how to help LLMs think more like humans — and make fewer mistakes.

Alongside innovation, partnerships and adoption, Year 2 of the generative AI race also includes more scrutiny over transparency, copyright, and ethics.

Here’s a list of all the major deals signed between publishers and AI tech companies in 2024.

The fragmented social landscape continued to splinter in 2024, as traffic from social media platforms sent to publishers’ sites continued its steady decline this year.