Months after benchmarking high rates of false narratives generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 and Google's Bard chatbots, NewsGuard repeated its audit, finding similar rates despite increased public
scrutiny of generative AI tech.
During the past few months, Google's cybersecurity group Mandiant observed what researchers believe to be some sort of coordination between pro-Russian hacking groups and cyber break-ins by Russia's
military intelligence agency.
Direct-response advertising will "hold up better" through the economic slowdown that is expected to hit online advertising industry this year and into 2023.
Marketing budgets climbed to 9.5% of total company revenue in 2022 -- up from 6.4% in 2021, but down from 11% in 2020 and 10.5% in 2019, according to Gartner.
That's according to an estimate issued by Insider Intelligence, citing the ongoing war. The research firm also predicts a 28% ad-spend drop in Central and Eastern Europe.
"Forty-nine percent believe brands taking a stance is not enough," the report asserts, "they have to have an obligation to act."
Criteo participated in Google's first FLoC Origin Trial in an effort to understand the audience cohorts. The Yandex browser also creates FLoC cohorts.
Moore has joined a task force to help the government determine how it can use data on U.S. citizens to train and support AI models, helping the U.S. better compete with China and Russia.
Microsoft today reported yet another large-scale email system hack. This attack comes on the heels of several other breaches including SolarWinds, Ubiquiti, and the Colonial Pipeline.
Fueled by demand for new smartphones, as well as the rollout of 5G spectrum, telecommunications industry ad spending is expected to expand an average of 4.5% annually through 2023, according to a new
report released today by Publicis Media's Zenith unit.
Security researchers have discovered a new version of the ComRAT malware that is being used by the Russian hacker group Turla. It is controlled through the Gmail web interface.
About 92% of major news sites in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Germany have active ad trackers that send readers behavioral data across international borders, mostly to Russia.
Linear TV has a 41.9% share of all worldwide advertising in 12 key markets -- the U.S., UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and Russia.
It may not be the most surprising piece of news, but Oxford University researchers have helped reveal that Russia used all available social media platforms to try to influence the 2016 US Presidential
election, the BBC reports.
Forget Adidas vs Nike. Lidl has upstaged both by tapping into our emotions.
A tenth of new ad spend globally will be attributable to the World Cup -- the most social tournament we will have seen to date.