- Microsoft AI Licensing Content Framework Gives Publishers Revenue Stream
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 3, 2026
U.S. publishers including Business Insider, Conde Nast, Hearst Magazines, People, The Associat ...
- The Great Lobster Invasion, And Why My Agent Isn't One Of Them
Media 3.0, Joe Mandese - Monday, February 2, 2026
This column is about a new bots-only social network, and why ...
- Google Gives Creators AI-Generated World Building
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 30, 2026
Google DeepMind began giving users access to "Project Genie" Thursday for Goog ...
- Anthropic Brings Interactive Apps To Claude Chatbot
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 26, 2026
Anthropic has introduced an extension to its Model Context Protocol, an open-sour ...
- OpenAI Addresses Monetization, Hires Ad Engineers
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
AI models have largely been trained on content funded by advertising, a ...
- Meta Pauses Teen Use Of AI Companions
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 23, 2026
Meta has announced it is temporarily pausing teens' access to the company ...
- Michigan Democrats Unveil Bills To Protect Children From Social Media, AI
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 22, 2026
Michigan legislators are considering measures to limit access by children to social medi ...
- Beta Brands Begin Testing ChatGPT Ads, Budgets = $1M Each
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 21, 2026
OpenAI has started offering a small group of advertisers the ability ...
- Young American Men Face Screen Time Challenges
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 19, 2026
A study conducted by Ipsos found a large majority of Americans belie ...
- OpenAI To Begin Testing Ads In Chat As Execs Challenge Publishers To Do More
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 16, 2026
Publishers have been pushing the industry to monetize AI chat. Today th ...
- Publishers Fear The 'Traffic Era' Is Over And Blame AI Search Summaries
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 12, 2026
AI search summaries and chatbots mean the “end of the traffic era,&rdqu ...
- X Limits Grok AI Image Generation To Paying Subs
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 9, 2026
While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images f ...
- Healthcare AI: Dangerous Mistakes, Deep Privacy Risks
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 8, 2026
While OpenAI designed ChatGPT Health to help users better understand their heal ...
- AI's Sexually Explicit Side Surfaces Via Search, Prompts
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 2, 2026
Grok and YouTube have a problem. Sexually explicit AI-generated content based ...
- Italy Bans Meta From Blocking Competing AI Chatbot Use On WhatsApp
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, December 24, 2025
The Italian Competition Authority issued a press release Wednesday ordering Meta ...
- YouTube Introduces AI Avatars Of Select Creators
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, December 17, 2025
A small group of YouTube creators have agreed to allow Google La ...
- AI Chatbots Join Social Media In Teens' Digital Lives: Pew
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Nearly two-thirds of teens ages 13 to 17 say they use ...
- AGs To Big Tech: Implement 'Safeguards' For Chatbots
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 11, 2025
"Because many of the conversations your chatbots are engaging in may viola ...
- WhatsApp Gives Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity The Boot
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Access to Copilot via WhatsApp will end on January 15, 2026. WhatsA ...
- OpenAI Adds Shopping Research For Product Discovery
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Building on what consumers share to personalize a buyer's guide, the featu ...
- Holiday Shoppers Using AI Are Open To Buy Through It
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 14, 2025
Google, which released several shopping agents this week, wants consumers to ha ...
- Tech Companies Pledge Billions For U.S. Data Centers
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Tech companies competing to develop intelligent AI models are pledging billions f ...
- Musk Reportedly Used Employees' Biometric Data To Train xAI Companion
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, November 6, 2025
Elon Musk is training Ani - one of xAI's NSFW AI companio ...
- Book Authors Can Proceed With Copyright Claims Against OpenAI
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Authors can proceed with claims that OpenAI's "outputs" -- including summaries ...
- Watchdogs To FTC: Block Meta Plan To Harness Chatbot Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 30, 2025
Meta's plan to target ads based on chatbot conversations "will normalize ...
- AI Assistants Provide Answers Full Of Errors, Study Says
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issu ...
- OpenAI Browser Keeps Search, Adds Memory Benefiting Advertisers
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 21, 2025
OpenAI has launched "Atlas," its AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT. T ...
- Yelp AI Chat Assistant Now Has A Memory
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Yelp has unveiled its fall product releases, including AI-powered call and answ ...
- Instagram Will Allow Parents To Block AI Chatbots For Teens
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, October 17, 2025
Instagram is now providing parents with more control over their kids' u ...
- X To Fight Bots With More User Info In Profiles
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, October 16, 2025
X is planning to roll out a new profile display that wi ...