2025-09-11

Online Media Brands Hope a New Protocol Will Stop Unwanted AI Crawlers

This new licensing standard is intended to ensure AI companies know the rules of reading their content. [...]

2025-09-11

Playing it safe is risky business in the age of AI

The social and civic impact sectors often lag behind technological trends, but the early days of AI offer an opportunity to create new strategies that maximize impact. [...]

2025-09-11

Paramount reportedly wants to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, antitrust law be damned

Paramount Skydance, apparently now in a state of permanent merger, plans to make a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company was recently formed following Sky [...]

2025-09-11

Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video ga [...]

2025-09-11

Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

Merriam-Webster and its parent company Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to take on AI in court. The plaintiffs have sued Perplexity, claiming that AI company's "answer engine" pro [...]

2025-09-11

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World

Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules. [...]

2025-09-10

Sony is rolling out a PlayStation parental controls mobile app

Sony is finally catching up to something Nintendo and Microsoft have had for years. The new PlayStation Family app mainly serves as a mobile extension of on-console parental controls. However, parents [...]

2025-09-10

'No Tax on Tips' apparently also applies to your favorite streamer

Streamers, YouTubers and other content creators are eligible for the new "No Tax on Tips" policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2024. &qu [...]

2025-09-10

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that partici [...]