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The bots already got in

It turns out blocking crawlers isn’t the fight that matters most. Plus the Times runs AI summaries, op-ed editors draw a line, and Reuters sells 39 years of archives.

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Pete Pachal
Sep 01, 2026
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People Inc. has the money and the expertise to keep AI crawlers out, and it still cannot stop them all. Today’s column argues that publishers picked the wrong fight, and that the one deciding their future is happening somewhere else entirely.

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