Month: October 2023

Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft’s Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

Unsealed court testimony in the Department of Justice’s landmark antitrust case against Google revealed Apple held talks not only with Microsoft, but also with DuckDuckGo.

Lizards are having a moment in advertising that goes beyond the familiar Geico ads. After Apple took home a Cannes Lions Film Grand Prix for an iPhone ad about a seemingly dead pet reptile, airline Aerom?xico is using an iguana to capture the joy of flying. The ad, titled “Esto Es Volar” and created by…

The guidance is intended to help the digital ad industry grapple with the deprecation of cookies and other digital identity trackers, IAB Tech Lab’s Shailley Singh says.

Were car manufacturers just thinking positively about the consumer automobile buying market? Or did they know something was coming — like a possible long-term strike?

AT&T uses its 70% stake in the standalone DirecTV company to offset debt, which may outweigh ongoing subscriber losses.

Comcast Corp./Charter Communications is offering a new streaming set-top device, Xumo Stream Box. Priced at $60, the device cand access most major subscription streaming apps, including Netflix,
Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Disney Plus, Max, Peacock, Tubi, and Pluto TV, among “hundreds” of other built-in apps.

Maybelline, which turns 108 this year, partnered with MTV and Paramount Brand Studio to create its first TikTok campaign targeting the Millennial consumer. Here’s what happened.

Kyiv enlisted a Silicon Valley insider to rush consumer-grade tech onto the battlefield. He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex.