Last Wednesday, The House passed a bill demanding that ByteDance sell TikTok to another owner or the government will pull the plug for its 170 million users based in the U.S. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bill blindsided TikTok executives.
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AI technology is evolving much faster than regulation can control. But regulators like Italy's Data Protection Authority are working to ensure we can all reap AI's benefits while complying with data ethics. Amid their lawsuit against the NYT, OpenAI faces privacy scrutiny in Europe after a multi-month investigation into ChatGPT’s data…
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For an industry bent on standards, the digital advertising ecosystem is rife with drama, as a stunning collection of books published in 2023 amply demonstrates. These books are on our reading list because they’re far from dry chronicles of an industry. The authors pull back the curtains so that we…
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To experts, OpenAI made five key governance mistakes, from its initial “weird” board structure to a small and inexperienced board making a bad decision. Time will tell if OpenAI survives as a company or if it’s absorbed into Microsoft entirely, but for now, other start-up tech companies are looking at…
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In August, background actors told reporters that Hollywood studios started creating AI scans of them, without making it clear how those scans would be used. Their union wanted ironclad veto power over “digital doubles,” and minimum pay rates when AI is used to create an actor’s digital likeness.
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Nielsen plans to integrate Amazon Prime's streaming data into its audience measurement tools starting on the premiere of Thursday Night Football. The deal has lead networks to express concerns that Amazon receives preferential treatment in data integration.
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The tech titan Google has found itself in another antitrust debacle. The EU dropped a bombshell, charging them with violating EU antitrust laws. Google's dominance in online advertising has led them down a slippery slope, undercutting their competitors left and right.
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This is just one of the more worrying findings in HUMAN’s yearly Enterprise Bot Fraud Benchmark Report, which examines over 20 trillion digital interactions each week (or about 33 million per second!). The annual report seeks to provide enterprise security teams with the insights they need to understand what they’re…
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In January, the DOJ sued Google for allegedly monopolizing the digital advertising market, marking the second time they sued the tech giant. Google’s response shows that they aren’t going to lie down and take it.
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In an interview with MarketingBrew, Dan Taylor, Google’s VP of Global Ads claimed that the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit is “kind of out of touch” and that the market felt “more competitive than ever.” Part of the DOJ’s complaint is that Google pockets $.30 out of every ad dollar that flows…
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