DeSantis Administration Threatens Tampa Station for Airing Abortion Rights Ad
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA with legal action for airing an abortion rights campaign ad. (TVSpy)Read More
Publishers Are Bringing Vertical Video to the Open Web With Webflix
Media companies Time and The Arena Group partnered with technology vendor Webflix Monday to bring short-form vertical video to their portfolio of open web properties. (ADWEEK)Read More
Microsoft Looks Set to Shutter Retail Media Business
Five years after acquiring retail advertising platform PromoteIQ, Microsoft now seems to be quietly shutting it down and pushing clients to use Criteo. (Digiday)Read More
The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down
It’s too soon to say how the spate of deals between artificial intelligence companies and publishers will shake out. OpenAI has already scored one clear win, though: Its web crawlers aren’t getting blocked by top news outlets at the rate they once were. (WIRED)Read More
The Former Host of S-Town Has a New Subject to Investigate: Journalism
When podcast S-Town came out in 2017, it rode into the audio world on the crest of a wave that had been created by its sister podcast, Serial, just three years earlier. If you worked in audio, spirits were high. (Nieman Lab)Read More
Explainer: What Marketers Need to Know About Tech’s Next Big Bet, AI Agents
AI agents, digital assistants pitted as the next evolution in artificial intelligence, promise to handle tasks autonomously, from booking reservations to negotiating business deals. At OpenAI’s DevDay event in San Francisco last week, the company demoed a voice bot calling local delivery service and successfully ordering 400 chocolate-covered strawberries for the attendees, specifying the delivery…Read More
Why Latinx Fans Demand Sports Marketing Beyond Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic and Latino sports fans already put up big viewership and sales figures. Brands and broadcasters just need to watch the scoreboard. Back in early September, during an event held amid the US Open tennis tournament in New York, Nielsen teamed with Latinos in Sports (LiS) to release a study on Hispanic and Latino fandom…Read More
Facing the future
The Tofflers explained that Future Shock kicks in when the world changes faster than we’re ready for. We react instead of respond, and often shut down in the face of too much of the new.
When our world changes (and it always does, more now than ever) we have four choices. And only one of them is helpful.
DENY: We can pretend that the world isn’t changing, that nothing is different and angrily push back on any evidence to the contrary. We can see the change as a personal affront, and insist that it’s not real or doesn’t matter.
GIVE UP: The contrary position is seductive as well. We can embrace our perceived powerlessness and simply stop trying.
CONTROL: While some understate their power, others overstate it. We can attempt to institute draconian measures, shortcut existing systems and demand that things go the way we want them to. You can hold back the ocean for a little while, but it always finds a way. It’s hard to make the tide against the law.
RESPOND: And this path is the resilient one, the one that not only makes it more likely we’ll achieve something but also engages us in productive work. Responders see and acknowledge the situation, then use their resources to make an impact. It never works out exactly the way we hope, but it usually works out better than any of the other paths.
Nebius is tripling Nvidia GPU capacity at its AI data centre in Finland
“Welcome on board. I have been tasked with taking you to Mäntsälä — in the middle of nowhere,” the minivan driver greets us in the characteristic clear and unhurried intonations of a Finnish native speaker. Mäntsälä is, indeed, in the middle of nowhere. But this kind of location is often where you find collections of some of the most powerful machines of today, humming away behind doors along unpretentious corridors. This includes Nebius’ AI data centre, taking shape in the small community an hour’s drive or so north of Helsinki. Amsterdam-based Nebius is labelling itself an AI cloud infrastructure company.…
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Ticker: News Networks Mark the 1 Year Anniversary of the Oct. 7 Attacks
Top of the Ticker: Monday marked the one year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel. The broadcast, cable and streaming news outlets marked the occasion by reporting from the region as the tentacles of the war continue to spread throughout the Middle East. Last week, NBC News Now premiered the documentary, Freed: One…Read More