This is an era of the "rug pull", an age of the "pump and dump".

The terms come from investment scams, but now apply more generally. A project is going well, prices are skyrocketing, attracting more investors: "the pump".

Suddenly, it all comes crashing down. The rug is pulled and the founders vanish with the money. Investors are left with worthless assets: "the dump".

After years of being courted by tech companies and encouraged to provide content optimised for their platforms and websites, news sites are increasingly finding themselves locked out and denied access to their users.

What do Google AI summaries mean for the future of news? Photo shows An illustration of Google search on a mobile phone.

One year on from the rollout of Google AI Overviews in Australia, exclusive data s

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