Yahoo CEO says micropayments will never be enough for publishers

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone said at HumanX in Amsterdam that micropayment deals won't pay publishers enough, and Yahoo is betting on search advertising instead. Its AI answer engine Scout, launched in beta in January on Anthropic and Bing models, will keep links back to publishers. Yahoo claims 700 million monthly users.

• Lanzone: micropayments are "never going to be enough" for publishers
• Scout runs on Claude Haiku and Bing grounding API, US-only for now
• Yahoo cites 700M monthly users; 75% of Gen Z use its services
• Long-term goal is product growth, then a sale or IPO