Yahoo CEO Warns AI Poses 'Existential' Threat to Publishers

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone warned Wednesday that artificial intelligence is threatening the survival of digital publishers by using their content to generate answers without sending readers back to their websites, calling the breakdown of that relationship an "existential issue" for the industry. Speaking at the Paley International Council Summit in New York, Lanzone said AI-powered search engines have upended a decades-old arrangement in which publishers allowed search engines to crawl their websites in exchange for referral traffic. "For the first 27, 28 years of the internet, there was a . . .