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Stockholm-based Lovable has raised $7.5mn in pre-seed funding for its newly-launched AI coding assistant that promises to make everyone a dev. Dubbed GPT Engineer, the AI coding tool generates production-ready code in real-time, without requiring developer experience. According to the startup, users need only chat with the assistant to build websites and web apps. “We want to expand the world’s coding capabilities beyond the current 1% of the population who can program, and make software more accessible as a result,” Anton Osika, co-founder of Lovable, said in a statement. The GPT Engineer GPT Engineer is powered by customised Lange Language Models…

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Ron DeSantis’s administration is threatening Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA with legal action for airing an abortion rights campaign ad. The ad features a woman named Caroline who needed an abortion and cancer treatments after a brain tumor diagnosis in 2022, which would be illegal because of Florida’s six-week abortion ban. Orlando Sentinel investigative journalist Jason…Read More

Two general managers are retiring from Gray Media. Laura Long is retiring as the general manager of KNOE in Monroe, Louisiana effective October 4, 2024. In Sherman, Texas, Rick Dean will retire as the general manager of KXII effective December 31, 2024. Long began her television career 35 years ago in Monroe, after earning a…Read More

Music publisher and entertainment professional Michelle Bell has joined Brand Macro as senior vice president, head of brand partnerships. In this role, she will report to Macro chief brand officer Stacey Walker King and oversee business development, management of new and existing brand strategy clients, branded content creation, and experiential activations. Brand Macro is a…Read More

Instacart is equipping grocery carts with more ads. The online grocery service is rolling out three new ad formats that appear on the screens built into Instacart’s tech-enabled grocery carts, called Caper Carts. The carts use AI and retailers’ loyalty card programs to serve up personalized offers based on the location and past purchases of…Read More

TikTok kicked off Advertising Week in New York with a flurry of announcements covering artificial intelligence-powered automated performance tools, enhanced measurement capabilities, and new privacy technologies for advertisers. “TikTok is building for the future,” global head of monetization product solutions and operations David Kaufman said in a statement. “We have been listening, learning, and innovating…Read More

Todd Phillips’ sequel Joker: Folie a Deux bombed in its box-office debut with an estimated domestic opening of $40 million, well behind expectations, after becoming the the first Hollywood comic book movie in history to earn a D CinemaScore from audiences. (THR / Heat Vision) Those discordant domestic ticket sales were behind initial projections of…Read More

Global independent agency Tombras has acquired The Burns Group, an independent advertising agency based in New York. The acquisition further bolsters Tombras’ capabilities with top CPG clients, including the Swiss cough drop brand Ricola, which Tombras will take over as creative AOR. The Burns Group also works with Haleon brands, previously serving as AOR for…Read More

After more than three decades, Jon Steinlauf is exiting Warner Bros. Discovery. Bruce Campbell, the company’s chief revenue and strategy officer, made the announcement Friday in a note to staff, saying it was the ad sales chief’s choice to leave. (ADWEEK) No replacement was named; the company said it would perform a search to find…Read More

Google said Friday that it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles and ditch the agreements it has with local news organizations if the country’s government goes ahead with a law to force tech giants to pay a fair price for content that appears on their feeds. (Reuters) This past July, New Zealand’s government…Read More