The Watermark Moves From Feature to Policy
2026-08-18 Daily Report — Claude's watermark policy extended a labeling wave that now runs from Suno's music marks to the EU's enforceable disclosure rules, Gemini 3.7 Flash kept the efficiency line falling, and OpenAI opened an SMB program while AI store-operations tooling reached Korean retail — provenance hardened into compliance just as distribution pushed downmarket.