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“Don’t be evil” might have been Google’s early motto, but it seems like more of a footnote once it went full throttle chasing online ad dollars.

If that sounds dramatic, the third day of its antitrust trial in federal court includes new evidence from U.S. Justice Department witnesses.

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A helicopter crew shared by New York stations WCBS and WNYW found a missing child who turned out to be playing what we used to call “hooky.” The boy was supposed to be at school, but never showed up. His parents called the cops who then put out a description of the kid. Turns out,…

Bluesky has been building out its in-app capabilities since it fully opened to the public in February as a decentralized alternative to X, aiming to provide users with a potentially less volatile
space to commune since owner Elon Musk slashed the majority of X’s content-moderation team in 2022.

On Tuesday, 42 attorneys general demanded that Congress require cigarette-like Surgeon General warning labels on social-media apps to help raise awareness among children, teens and young adults.

A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences.

Top of the Ticker: Hurricane Francine is set to make landfall in Louisiana today as a possible Category 2 storm. Coastal communities have been evacuating in anticipation of its arrival and floodgates within the region have been closed. Most of the major news networks have already sent crews down to Louisiana to cover the impact…

Every fall, fashion lovers gather in New York for a week to get a preview of what’s to come. This year, healthy soda brand Poppi joined in with a pop-up called Poppi World to promote a new cherry cola flavor and sell branded merch. Poppi World was aimed at bringing the digital-heavy brand offline. The…

A former Google advertising executive testified in the US antitrust case against Google, painting a picture of a company where it can be difficult to make change. The Department of Justice is trying to prove that Google’s ad business is a monopoly with tools that control how both advertisers and publishers buy and sell digital…

Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.

While first-party data ranks as the No. tactic being used by ad execs to target consumers in response to restrictive privacy laws, contextual data is a close No. 2, according to findings of an ad
industry survey released this morning by Proximic by Comscore.