Good morning and hope you’re all having a good summer so far. I’m writing to you while Dom enjoys some well-deserved time off.

I got to the bottom of what’s going on at Fortune where London-based journalists posted that their entire European editorial team had been made redundant, but the business publisher responded that it is not pulling out of the region and still has staff here.

It seems that new editorial roles are being created but unusually will contain some commercial KPIs. The other remaining editorial staff report to the US, so were not part of the team that had been concentrating on expanding UK/European coverage and revenue for the past 18 months under executive editor Alex Wood Morton.

The changes made to this team had already happened before the cuts to 10% of the global workforce announced earlier this week. We’ve looked at the strategy behind both changes here.

Also today, we’ve got a staggering stat: the volume of scraping attacks on publishers is believed to have risen 56% in the past year.

This represents a huge amount of stolen content, including from behind the paywall, and shows a breakdown of accepted standards and gentlemen’s agreements.

Although Cloudflare is now blocking all AI scrapers by default, when third-party crawlers with less transparency are used it’s hard to know who’s actually accessing publisher websites.

Rob Waugh has dug into this issue of third-party scrapers for us. I’d wager it’s something you already knew was going on but that this might provide a wake-up call as to the extent and seriousness of it.

And we have two updates from the Google frontline: AI summaries have started to roll out in Discover in the US, putting at risk the traffic referrals that some publishers have come to rely on as traditional search began to decline.

Meanwhile we spoke to The Economist about why it partnered with Google to create one of its few “featured notebooks” in AI research tool NotebookLM. The Atlantic is the other initial publisher partner but it sounds like there may be scope for others to come.

Have a great weekend when it comes.

Fortune Europe editorial team made redundant but new roles being created

The redundancies are separate to newly-announced plans to cut 10% of the Fortune global workforce.

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Third-party scrapers are stealing publisher content to order for AI companies

Unscrupulous companies are ignoring Robots.txt warnings and bypassing paywalls.

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Google AI summaries start to roll out in Discover in US

“This isn’t accidental. Google is methodically training users to consume information without leaving Google’s properties.”

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The Atlantic and The Economist among initial partners for Google ‘featured notebooks’

“People can cut into it, explore themes, and I think that was what was so compelling about this when Google brought it to us.”

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