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Is Google finally caving?

The big G may be softening its stance on content licensing. Plus: Trump on copyright, Discover gets AI Overviews, and more.

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Pete Pachal
Jul 24, 2025
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Google is reportedly looking to sign licensing deals with several national publishers. (Credit: Midjourney)

Google might finally be coming around. Bloomberg reports that Google is negotiating a deal with up to 20 national news publications. A content licensing deal.

This is huge. Google has so far taken the stance that its crawling and indexing of the web…

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