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digital advertising revenue reached $294.6 billion in 2025, up 13.9% year-on-year; Social media advertising reached $117.7 billion, up 32.6%, and digital video reached $78 billion, up 25.4% (George Winslow/TV Tech)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Uncapped with Jack Altman: Max Mullen of Instacart Conversations with people I admire about things that really interest…

Business & Money

Amazon Launches Masters Golf Coverage as Fourth Media Partner

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

Key PointsAmazon Prime Video will offer two hours of exclusive coverage of the Masters golf tournament, from 1 p.m. to…

Business & Money

DOJ investigates NFL over media rights, antitrust issues

By Stacey D. WallsApril 9, 2026

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the NFL for potential anticompetitive tactics, a government official told…

Technology

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would ban children under 15 from accessing social media from January 1, 2027 and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI vs. Anthropic’s Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents – With Aaron Levie The Big…

Technology

EU legislation allowing voluntary analysis of CSAM by technology and social media companies expired on April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI buys TBPN, SpaceX’s IPO for $2 trillion? Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure The Big Technology…

Politics

Trump disappears and hides behind his social media account as his Iran war collapses

By Frank M. EverettApril 4, 2026

Days after Trump addressed the nation and proclaimed that the United States militarily dominated Iran, the Iranians shot down a…

Technology

while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and toward positions aligned with experts (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

Technology

A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Why OpenAI killed Sora, did Apple just save Siri?, Meta’s big loss The Big Technology…

Business & Money

MLB faces historic change as possible lockout, media rights and league changes loom

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 26, 2026

Opening Day Thursday could be the calm before the storm for Major League Baseball. The league’s collective bargaining agreement with…

Technology

Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred people within Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting and some sales positions (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 25, 2026

Jyoti Mann / The information: Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred…

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

RFK Jr.’s Peptide Policy Could Boost Hims & Hers as Its GLP-1 Business Scales

Netflix (NFLX) Q1 2026 Results

Jared Kushner under investigation for potential violations of federal bribery and foreign agent laws

Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Donald Trump has lost his power to America

RFK Jr. collapses in front of the country during a hearing at home

Democrats decide to impeach Pete Hegseth for recklessly endangering US troops

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Cerebras files for IPO on Nasdaq, reports 2025 revenue of $510 million, up 76% year-over-year, with net profit of $87.9 million, compared to net loss of $485 million in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Some shareholders question whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have proposed Bret Taylor as successor (Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: media

digital advertising revenue reached $294.6 billion in 2025, up 13.9% year-on-year; Social media advertising reached $117.7 billion, up 32.6%, and digital video reached $78 billion, up 25.4% (George Winslow/TV Tech)

Amazon Launches Masters Golf Coverage as Fourth Media Partner

DOJ investigates NFL over media rights, antitrust issues

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece would ban children under 15 from accessing social media from January 1, 2027 and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)

EU legislation allowing voluntary analysis of CSAM by technology and social media companies expired on April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)

Trump disappears and hides behind his social media account as his Iran war collapses

while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and toward positions aligned with experts (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

A profile of Mark Lanier, a Texas lawyer and part-time pastor who beat Meta and Google in the Los Angeles social media case and said Zuckerberg was “shaken” on the stand (Wall Street Journal)

MLB faces historic change as possible lockout, media rights and league changes loom

Meta confirms its intention to lay off staff; sources say this affects a few hundred people within Reality Labs, its social media teams, recruiting and some sales positions (Jyoti Mann/The Information)