content licensing

Microsoft is urging publishers and retailers to stop treating AI crawlers as intruders and start making their sites readable to bots, after Nikhil Kolar, Microsoft AI’s vice president of publisher product, argued at AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI event in Las Vegas that blocking agents risks...

Thurrott’s recent reinforcement of its content rules — a short, lawyer‑lean paragraph that tells bots and commercial re‑users to back off — isn’t a petty, parochial demand; it’s a deliberate, public act of policy that sits at the junction of journalism economics, user expectations, and the legal...