Australia plans to implement a new charge on the owners of global tech platforms, attempting to shore up local media outlets months after Facebook cut ties with traditional news providers. The government plans to charge platforms that choose not to enter or renew commercial agreements with local news publishers. The charge will apply to large digital platforms irrespective of whether or not they carry news, the government said Thursday.
Source: Australia Plans Tech-Platform Charge to Shore Up News Media
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Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, is expanding its publisher program, with the LA Times, Adweek, Mexico News Daily, and a dozen other news outlets signing up. Publishers will share in revenue generated by ads on Perplexity, and receive metrics to track their content’s performance — as long as they don’t withdraw.
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Amazon is reaching out to news publishers about opportunities to license their content for the next generation of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, slated to debut next year, Axios has learned. The company plans to debut a new, smarter version of Alexa, using generative AI to power customized responses to real-time user queries about the news.
