News 04/08/2026 09:34 Substantial growth in display advertising not enough to offset sweep of smaller losses. Richard Reeves: “Separate to the DPRI, we have been investigating the impact of AI on publisher referral traffic, and it was only a matter of…
The Hindu Group members pose with the awards alongside other winners at the WAN-IFRA event in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The Hindu Group has been named the ‘Champion Publisher of the Year 2026’ by the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), earning the title for the third time. The Group topped the…
Alphabet is updating Google Search with new AI capabilities, inviting users to engage with its search engine much like they would with a conversational LLM. Announced as part of the I/O developer conference, the new features revolve around an upgrade to Google’s classic Search box, which is now becoming an “intelligent” box that’s more integrated…
Far Far West – a sci-fi fantasy co-op shooter that launched on 28th April – is off to a fantastic early access start on Steam, and its publisher is now making it very clear it’s not interested in working with developers that use generative AI tools. Yesterday, it was revealed the game had already crossed…
New Delhi: As India’s digital news ecosystem grapples with the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence, Mariam Mammen Mathew, CEO of Manorama Online and Chairperson of Digital News Publishers Association, struck a note of urgency and optimism at the Digital News Publishers Association conclave 2026. She framed the moment not as a crisis, but as a…
This week, we covered the first core update of 2026, the February 2026 Discover core update. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing super-heated and volatile Google search rankings. Google has nothing to share about the recent unconfirmed ranking updates. Google said its search algorithms, spam detection, spam policies did not fundamentally change with AI Search. Google…
Game publisher Hooded Horse has said that it is refusing to work with developers who are using generative AI. Speaking to Kotaku, CEO Tim Bender wrote that the technology has “made our lives more difficult”. He added that part of its publishing contracts with studios is that they cannot use generative AI assets. This even…
