In today’s Digest, we cover Brussels ramping up pressure on Meta over its alleged "addictive" platform design, Google expanding AI disclosure rules across Search, YouTube, and Discover ads, and more...

This week, AI continued to redefine how consumers discover content and products, while regulators across Europe and the UK stepped up efforts to reshape the digital marketplace. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Sony’s plan to end PlayStation disc production [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Apple and the EU holding talks over Siri’s AI rollout; DeepSeek introducing peak-hour API pricing amid China’s AI price war; and Amazon reporting that AI-referred purchases have doubled. 

In today’s Digest, we cover Netflix bringing Upfronts to the UK for the first time, Brussels forcing Meta to allow rival AI services on WhatsApp, and Italy’s Bending Spoons filing for a US IPO.

In today’s Digest, we cover OpenAI laying the groundwork for ChatGPT ads in the EU and sharing user data with advertisers, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs backing a new enterprise AI venture, and Elon Musk settling an SEC [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Meta testing premium subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp as well as Google agreeing to a USD$68m settlement over voice assistant privacy claims, while it receives guidance from the EU about how to help search [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Amazon in talks to invest over USD$10bn in OpenAI, and OpenAI hiring George Osborne to lead its global ‘Stargate’ expansion. We also discuss the Trump administration threatening Spotify over EU tech rules, and an IAB [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Comcast in talks to buy ITV’s broadcast arm for £2bn, Apple nearing a USD$1bn deal to power a Siri overhaul with Google’s Gemini AI, and the EU weakening its landmark AI Act amid Big Tech [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss Apple planning ads for Maps, X losing its advertising boss, and the EU’s preliminary findings that Meta and TikTok broke disclosure obligations.

This week, governments turned up the heat on AI and Big Tech as holding companies doubled down on artificial intelligence to stay ahead. In today’s Digest, we discuss the ad industry unveiling the new AdCP standard, major publishers facing a [...]