Vice News: A ‘Cool’ TV News Biz Story Gone Cold

Vice Media and Vice TV rose to prominence at precisely the wrong time as cord-cutting began to accelerate. Positioned as a young-skewing TV news/unscripted program channel, it was also still an
unproven genre.

Metric Shows Critical Connection Between Time And Attention

GumGum’s attention metrics company Playground xyz has a new attention framework to offer advertisers a way to better understand how time directly influences outcomes.

Sorrell’s S4S Ventures Backs tvScientifc

Jason Fairchild, Co-Founder/CEO tvScientific said the investment “marks a significant step forward in our mission to revolutionize performance advertising on Connected TV.”

The Mindblowing Experience of a Chatbot That Answers Instantly

AI chips from startup Groq allow chatbots to answer queries almost instantly. That could open up whole new use cases for generative AI helpers.

Are You Really Supporting Diverse Suppliers?

Here are three questions to ask your suppliers to see if they’re the real deal or pretending to be diverse-owned and just white-labeling another company’s technology.

Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well

X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate speech was spreading on the platform. In a hearing Thursday, a federal judge sounded skeptical of those claims.

When Generative AI Makes The Ad

Ready or not, generative AI startups are harnessing the power of AI to make ad creative. You’ve probably got some questions. How can marketers figure out if these startups work for them? What are the hidden costs? The legal risks of using models trained on copyrighted material? We’ve got answers. Our senior editor Hana Yoo […]

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Here Come the AI Worms

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.