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An AI hate wave is here

Inside the growing screen-free childhood movement

AI hasn't overtaken human writers online

A line chart that compares quarterly share of primarily AI-written and human-written English-language URLs from 2020 to 2026. AI rises from 1% in early 2020 to 50.9% in late 2025, while human falls from 99% to 49.1%. The lines converge around 2025 after a sharp AI climb in 2023-24.

Human-written vs. primarily AI-written

Data: Graphite.io; Note: Based on an average of three AI-detector tools sampling URLs from Common Crawl; Chart: Megan Morrone/Axios

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Scoop: Paramount in talks with Katie Miller for podcast deal as it eyes expansion

Scoop: Paramount in talks with Katie Miller for podcast deal

Exclusive: Penta Group names Jim O'Leary as CEO

Media Deals

Legacy media spins age as its advantage

Exclusive: ProPublica expands to California

A column chart that shows ProPublicaâs annual revenue from 2016 to 2025. Revenue rose from $17.23 million in 2016 to $70.47 million in 2025, the series high. It dipped from $45.66 million in 2021 to $42.44 million in 2022, then climbed through 2025.

ProPublica annual revenue

Data: Financial disclosures; Note: Revenue includes earned income, interest and money allocated to the strategic plan campaign. Chart: Sara Fischer/Axios

Exclusive: Time launches online games

CNN launches CNN Weather app

Byron Allen strikes deal to buy controlling stake in BuzzFeed and become CEO

A line chart that tracks BuzzFeedâs daily stock price from Dec. 6, 2021, to May 11, 2026. Shares fell from $34.24 at the start to $4.52 on Jan. 12, 2023, $0.87 on Feb. 21, 2024, and $0.73 at the end, near the $0.57 low.

BuzzFeed stock price

Correction: Time range was corrected to reflect BuzzFeed's time as a public company. Data: Financial Modeling Prep; Chart: Christine Wang/Axios

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