Last week saw the birth of Source Code, a spiritual successor to the old Hacks/Hackers LDN event, a pre-pandemic meet-up of journalists and techies of London. The difference between now and then is the emergence of genAI. And of course, it dominated the discussion.

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Here are the highlights:

A new AI licensing landscape is forming

Kevin Anderson, digital revenue network director at WAN-IFRA, compared the news industry pre-2025 to the 'Napster (the music pirating service) era'.

"Before 2025, there was no functioning market. There was just random illegal scraping, scraping by any means necessary," he said. Only the largest publishers or those with highly specialised content — such as legal, financial, or elite sports........

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