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“Perplexity has blocked all markdown advertising on Time.com from influencing its agents or user-facing agents since the practice was first reported. The company’s search and security teams are also working on other solutions to protect its users from markdown ads more broadly, Digiday has learned.” —HT
“Relevance remains a problem … One example saw a prompt about dating apps accompanied by an ad for a clothing and lifestyle retailer, while a newspaper subscription query triggered an electricity provider ad.” —AD
“Anthropic will watermark text generated by its models, including Claude, to comply with European regulations, the company now says. The AI model maker confirmed the watermarking in an updated support page. EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which took effect on August 2, requires AI companies to mark AI-generated or edited content in a way other systems can identify them.” —AD
“Spotify will soon label AI artists and remove their music from your recommendations. The change, which will start rolling out in mid-September, means you’ll see an ‘AI Persona’ badge on an artist’s profile across the app if they do ‘not represent a real person.'” —AD
“In the second quarter of 2022, the last full quarter before Elon took over, Twitter brought in $1.08 billion in ad revenue. In the second quarter of 2026, X brought in $367 million. That’s $713 million a quarter, gone. Elon has wiped out two-thirds of Twitter’s ad business over the exact period in which he promised investors he’d nearly triple it.” —AD
“Numerous people participated in the deception, some unwittingly, and journalists who thought they were traveling with the president aboard the legacy Air Force One were not notified that he had changed aircraft or made aware of the extent of the threat on Air Force One, the U.S. official said.” —AD
“A federation of nearly 300 French newspapers said Tuesday that it filed a complaint with the country’s competition authority over Google’s new AI-generated summaries of search results, fearing the feature will further erode traffic to news websites…It said Google had sprung the new artificial intelligence summaries without their consent, an alleged violation of a 2022 [compensation deal with French media groups].” —AD
“Hamilton is an umbrella brand for AI-powered personalization features, including chatbot ‘Hamilton Search,’ personalized news briefing ‘Post Express,’ recommendation engine ‘Picked For You’ and commentary and analysis discovery tool ‘Post Voices’ … The tools were built using Google Cloud infrastructure, including its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Gemini models.” —AD
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