The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
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The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
Last year, several companies backed RSL, a new licensing standard that would require AI companies to pay for scraping content through a collective license rather than one-off deals with specific outlets. Now Yahoo, one of the backers of what is now called the Internet Licensing Collective (ILC), is its first official licensee. [Link: Yahoo becomes first licensee of ‘Spotify-like’ collective AI content licensing model | https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-becomes-first-licensee-of-spotify-like-collective-ai-content-licensing-model/ | Digiday]
The comments, made in an interview with Yahoo Finance, come after the chipmaker reported its “largest and most profitable” quarter in history. Su expects AMD’s data center business to grow 50 percent from Q3 to Q4, calling the growth a “testament to how important computing is” to the AI boom.
Dazzle analyzes photos to answer questions and perform tasks. It launched last month, and is designed to be “more approachable.” than other AI tools. The former Yahoo CEO believes it might be a hit with women, who “tend to take more photos and are more visual.” [Link: Maybe We All Need an AI Wife | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/style/marissa-mayer-ai-assistants-women.html | The New York Times]