Month: February 2025

Traffic getting sent to publishers’ sites from AI platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity is growing. And while that makes sense for the publishers that have signed deals with those companies to receive attribution for their content surfaced on those AI chatbot or search platforms, data shows that referral traffic is growing even to sites that are attempting to block those platforms’ crawlers.

Execs at three large digital media companies told Digiday they have seen referral traffic from Open-AI owned ChatGPT increase recently.

The Atlantic saw a “significant” increase in traffic from ChatGPT in the past few months. Referrals rose by more than 80% from December to January, according to a spokesperson. The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI in May 2024.

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The domestic theatrical business through two months of 2025 is still down 31% vs. 2020 season-to-date in box-office revenue – at $963 million, according to IMDb Box Office Mojo.

Despite its value and reputation being tarnished through staff cuts, threats aimed at advertisers and the proliferation of harmful content on its platform, X may reclaim its original valuation from
Musk’s 2022 purchase. According to Bloomberg, anonymous sources reported X’s involvement in talks with investors – the first known investment round since Musk took X private – to raise money at a $44
billion valuation despite its user and advertiser losses.

Aside from unfavorable comparisons to rival advanced driver systems, calling it God’s Eye could be as misleading a moniker as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving.

Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.

The processor uses qubits that can be measured without error and are resistant to outside interference, which the company says marks a “transformative leap toward practical quantum computing.”

The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records.

Meta and X gave the green light to AI-generated ads that called for the gassing of immigrants in concentration camps and the burning of synagogues ahead of Germany’s federal elections on Feb. 23, according to new research from corporate accountability group Eko. The watchdog submitted 10 extremist ads filled with hate speech to both platforms…