A vehicle Tesla is using for robotaxi testing purposes on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. Tesla finally did the damn thing. The company launched ... read more

OpenAI has scrubbed mentions of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famous Apple designer Jony Ive, from its website and social media channels. The sudden change closely follows their recent ... read more

In a media world saturated by fragmented viewing platforms and real-time performance metrics, premium video still has a critical edge: brand safety, transparency and superior recall. But to stay competitive with social platforms, it needs ... read more

CANNES — The convergence of addressability and performance in connected TV is taking a step forward as the two largest streaming platforms join forces. A new partnership between Roku and Amazon is creating what executives ... read more

CANNES — The retail media industry needs to move beyond basic return-on-ad-spend measurements toward proving true sales incrementality if it wants to unlock its next phase of growth. That’s the message from one of the ... read more

Andru Marino is an audio and video producer at The Verge. “I make videos on our YouTube / TikTok / Instagram channels, and have produced our podcasts like Vergecast, Decoder, ... read more

Monotype is keen for you to know what AI might do in typography. As one of the largest type design companies in the world, Monotype owns Helvetica, Futura, and Gill ... read more

Image: The Verge I jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon a bit late, but now I can’t go a day without mine. Beyond delivering helpful notifications, it’s perfect for setting timers, ... read more

The Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering set is here, and there's never been a more perfect assemblage of Magic cards. The set features cards taken from every mainline Final Fantasy ... read more

Amazon’s mega sale is nearly upon us. This year, Prime Day will kick off on July 8th and run through July 11th, which, for those counting, is twice as long ... read more

Meta will begin selling its first pair of AR smart glasses with sports retailer Oakley, launching an ad campaign starring professional Team Oakley athletes. ... read more

Meta will begin selling its first pair of AR smart glasses with sports retailer Oakley, launching an ad campaign starring professional Team Oakley athletes. ... read more

I wouldn't have preordered a Nintendo Switch 2 just for myself. The price is high, there's no new Smash Bros. or Metroid Prime (yet), and I've got a perfectly good ... read more

The music industry's nightmare came true in 2023, and it sounded a lot like Drake. "Heart on My Sleeve," a convincingly fake duet between Drake and The Weeknd, racked ... read more

The E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, DC. The future of the internet will be determined in one building in Washington, DC - and for six weeks, I watched it ... read more

At this point, it's becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn't looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta ... read more

In a dissent she feeds a ‘perception’ about the Supreme Court she admits is wrong. ... read more

The Media Network of the Year award goes to Omnicom's OMD Worldwide. Mindshare was second followed by PHD Worldwide in third. ... read more

Apple’s latest iPad Air is an even better value now it’s $100 off. If you want to get a head start on back-to-school shopping — or upgrade your Apple gear ... read more

X Money may be planning to expand beyond digital payments. This week, app intelligence firm App Sensa discovered new strings of code in X that hint at debit card functionality. ... read more

While it wasn't the first film to feature fast-moving ghouls, there is no denying how much of an impact 28 Days Later had on modern zombie movies. It was a ... read more

"The No Kings turnout was significant, even if it didn't reach a critical threshold," Scott Galloway writes, adding, "When at least 3.5% of a country's population actively engages in a peaceful protest movement, it has ... read more

The more an AI model thinks, the more carbon it emits, a research study finds, and reasoning models can produce 50 times more emissions than concise ones. Large language models use tokens - words or ... read more

The more an AI model thinks, the more carbon it emits, a research study finds, and reasoning models can produce 50 times more emissions than concise ones. Large language models use tokens - words or ... read more

An appellate court revived a claim that Bloomingdale's violated a wiretap law by using "session replay" tracking technology. ... read more

The attention economy is oversaturated, with consumer focus splintered across formats and devices. ... read more

If you’ve been curious about trying out a Mac for the first time or need a small computer powerful enough to be your home media server, we strongly recommend the ... read more

Applebee’s and IHOP plan to launch an AI-powered “personalization engine” that could help its restaurants provide recommendations and customized deals, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The ... read more

Three non-TikTok users are seeking to revive claims that the company violated their privacy by allegedly tracking them via a pixel on websites operated by Hulu, Etsy and other businesses. ... read more

The work celebrated at the festival would have you believe that agency networks and their clients are still killing it. ... read more

Amazon Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year outside of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and in 2025 it’s even longer than usual. It’s running ... read more

Behavioral differences identified in AI queries across Google AI Overviews vs. ChatGPT tell the story of how consumers shop, but the recommendations those platforms return for each shopping question tell even more about the future ... read more

The GroupM Norway team of Angelika Marcinkeviciute and Maja Skaug Wirum won gold in the media category of the 2025 Young Lions awards in Cannes, France. They won for their "Hidden In Plain Sight" execution ... read more

The latest software update for recent Kindle models greatly expands spacing options. | Screenshot: YouTube/The eBook Reader Amazon released a new software update for several recent Kindle models last week. ... read more

Earlier this month, Microsoft’s Family Safety feature, primarily used by parents and schools as a set of parental controls and filters, started randomly blocking Google’s Chrome browser from opening on ... read more

Tesla has begun sending out invitations for its highly anticipated robotaxi service, but there’s one significant caveat: it’s installing a “safety monitor” in the front passenger seat, as previously reported ... read more

Dennis Holt, who founded several independent media agencies, including one of the ad industry's biggest, died Thursday. He was 88. ... read more

The idea behind Trump Mobile is relatively straightforward. It's easy to launch a mobile carrier these days, and it can be extremely lucrative - just ask Ryan Reynolds! You should ... read more

Meta is announcing its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley. The limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced “how-stuhn”) model costs $499 and is available for preorder starting July 11th. Other ... read more

A "New York Times" opinion piece from sports journalist Joon Lee says that for consumers, the overall sports price tag - per year - can amount to $4,785 a year. ... read more

Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the linguistic patterns, you'll find the creeping uniformity ... read more

The latest and third Grand Prix (Brand Experience and Activation) was awarded to 'Caption With Intention" at the Cannes Lions Festival's Thursday night awards ceremony. AXA's "Three Words" campaign also won an additional Grand Prix. ... read more

First quarter deal-making nearly tripled to $34.98 billion versus the same period a year before, when it totaled $12.2 billion. ... read more

Astro Bot is filled with whimsy and silliness that makes you want to pay attention to the details. But in a presentation at this year's Game Developers Conference, director Nicolas ... read more

Google's expanded commerce media suite gives brands and retailers AI-powered tools across platforms including Search, YouTube, and Display & Video 360 to optimize campaigns, and drive collaboration and measurable results - making commerce media the ... read more

The best part about pictures of this laptop is that the speakers can’t hurt you. The Acer Swift 14 is all over AI the place. It has powerful chip options, ... read more

Last week, a Tesla Model Y with the word "ROBOTAXI" scratched into its side and no one in the driver seat made a turn off Austin's bustling South Congress Avenue. ... read more

CANNES – Artificial intelligence continues to redefine modern marketing, and digital advertising agency PMG is doubling down on its belief that the future lies in platforms, not just partnerships. That vision is taking shape in ... read more

To receive this daily Cannes briefing over email, please subscribe here. After a week defined by contradictions — lavish $10 million beachfront activations against a backdrop of economy anxiety, AI buzz alongside quiet budget cuts ... read more

Creators are increasingly turning to agentic AI to streamline communication with fans — saving time and money — but raising new questions for brands and influencer marketers. The term “agentic AI” refers to artificial intelligence tools ... read more

As more ad dollars become digital dollars, brands are changing how they use more traditional marketing methods. Marketers at Coca-Cola’s Sprite have been relying on digital out-of-home (DOOH) to cut through the summer heat, for ... read more

What started as a weekend experiment is now a fully-fledged AI voice assistant on Hearst’s recipe site Delish, helping home cooks follow recipes hands-free. Hearst’s senior director of AI initiatives, Alexandria Redmon wanted a personal ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Amid the AI hype, increasingly fragmented media marketplace and economic headwinds, marketers this year came to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity looking for answers.  For Carly Carson, ... read more

Connoisseurs of "My 600-lb Life" on TLC will likely notice a significant difference between that show and the new obesity docuseries on Lifetime. ... read more

"Now, once technology and federal law permits, you can clone Ozzy and enjoy him for hundreds of years into the future," the brand claims. ... read more

A photo taken by Project Indigo. | Image: Adobe Adobe has a new computational photography camera app for iPhones – and one of its creators, Marc Levoy, helped make the ... read more

NetChoice failed to establish that a Tennessee law requiring parental consent for social media would cause "irreparable injury" to Meta, Snap or other platforms, a judge ruled. ... read more

President Trump has extended the selloff/ban of TikTok for the third time since the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in January. ... read more

We’ve been waiting for Spotify’s lossless streaming for more than four years, but there are some new and promising hints that the feature might finally arrive sometime soon. The X ... read more

Now that warmer weather is here, spring cleaning duties are likely falling by the wayside. But the good news is you can enjoy the outdoors and clean your home with zero effort by ... read more

The bosses in Elden Ring Nightreign are already pretty tough. But if you’ve gotten good and need a harder challenge, you’ll be able to take on “Everdark Sovereigns,” which are ... read more

Google faces a setback that could cost the company billions of dollars. An advisor to Europe's top court agreed with Brussels regulators that the tech giant had used its Android mobile phone operating system to ... read more

Do CEOs see themselves as answering to shareholders based in the Districts, and CMOs as living in a caricature-driven world like The Capitol? ... read more

HMN originally won Wolverine's media AOR business in September 2023, following a review consolidating its roster of multiple media shops representing 13 brands, including its largest -- Merrell -- which was handled by Dentsu's iProspect. ... read more

As Pope Leo XIV laid out his priorities this week, he called AI an "existential threat" as ad execs at Cannes discussed how it will affect their world. ... read more

S4 Capital Executive Chairman Martin Sorrell led a discussion at Cannes Thursday about advances in AI video creation and the implications for brands and agencies. ... read more

Conservative video platform Rumble on Wednesday appealed an order dismissing its claims that Google violated antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in the search results, and installing YouTube on Android devices. ... read more

Midjourney has released the first version of its video generation model to the public. For now, the tool can generate short videos based on images uploaded or created on the ... read more

CANNES – Television advertising is no longer just a vehicle for brand awareness. It’s now a measurable, performance-driven tool that delivers results across the entire marketing funnel, said Dawn Williamson, chief revenue officer of Comcast ... read more

Beyond the selfies between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations between the pair on stage, all is not well with Microsoft's $13 billion ... read more

The Department of Justice reported yesterday that it filed a civil complaint to seize roughly $225.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to crypto investment scams. In a press release, the DOJ ... read more

Sluggish Wi-Fi is one of my least favorite tech problems to deal with because it messes with everything: my work, my smart lightbulbs, my online sessions of Mario Kart World. ... read more

The Buss family sold its stake to Mark Walter, CEO of TWG Global, an investment holding company focused on AI and technology as well as sports, media and entertainment. ... read more

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan believes today's creators are the startups of Hollywood and at Cannes Lions said Google will integrate an AI video generator into the platform. Execs will keynote VidCon this week - the ... read more

With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy Entertainment has entered the world of the first-person co-op shooter. Set in its Control universe - specifically the site of the first game, the brutalist nightmare ... read more

Valve is introducing accessibility features for players with disabilities in its latest beta for Steam Big Picture Mode and SteamOS. The features — listed in full and explained here — include options ... read more

At a recent exhibition in Copenhagen, visitors stepped into a dark room and were met by an unusual host: a jaguar that watched the crowd, selected individuals, and began to ... read more

Netflix struck what many defined as a U.S.-like "carriage" deal allowing the streamer to deliver "live" broadcasts of much of the TFI content, as well as on-demand content. ... read more

For Eric Dane, the diagnosis was a bolt from the blue: ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ... read more

Summer Game Fest 2025 was definitely a weird one, but even with everything going on outside, the games on display were still immaculate. My favorites, the ones that I live for, are small, unique, and ... read more

CANNES — The ability to reach consumers at the precise moment they’re engaged in a specific activity is the holy grail for advertisers. For one rapidly growing commerce media platform, that moment happens millions of ... read more

The mobility revolution has created more than just a convenient way to get from A to B. It’s generated vast oceans of data about consumer behavior, location, and intent – and now those signals are ... read more

Late Wednesday night at about 11PM CT, SpaceX was about to perform a static fire test of Ship 36, ahead of a planned 10th flight test for its Starship, when ... read more

To receive this daily Cannes briefing over email, please subscribe here. At Cannes, AI is the loudest topic no one wants to talk about publicly. Everyone has an opinion. Few want their names attached to ... read more

There’s one major way in which Google’s AI-powered search feature AI Mode differs from its traditional search engine — a complex technique used to answer a user’s question called “query fan-out.” AI Mode started rolling out ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify We’ve reached the halfway point of this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and Rachel Lindsay has already lost her voice — not from inhaling sand kicked up along ... read more

Mere months away from closing the ultimate partnership in an acquisition of Interpublic Group (so long as the deal isn’t derailed), holding company Omnicom instead this week at Cannes Lions rolled out a series of ... read more

2017 called. It wants its keyword blocklists back. Ask a publisher a few weeks ago what kept them up at night, and it wasn’t (just) AI-powered search eroding their traffic or ad tariffs squeezing margins ... read more

Snapchat is betting that AI-powered ad tech might finally help it shrink the distance between itself and the platforms that have long outpaced it. Last month, the mobile messaging app launched its first major iteration ... read more

A survey the company did last year found that 1 in 3 women feel pressured to alter their appearance in real life due to online beauty standards. ... read more

IAS announced the launch of AI-powered contextual category reporting across Facebook and Instagram Feeds and Reels, providing new measurement opportunities for advertisers' brand suitability and performance goals. ... read more

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Mississippi from enforcing its parental-consent law against Dreamwidth, Meta Platforms, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, X, and YouTube. ... read more

Chris Feo, Chief Business Officer, Experian Marketing Services Marketers are under more pressure than ever to deliver personalized, high-performing ad campaigns — all while navigating tighter budgets, shifting privacy expectations and fragmented technology stacks.  Despite ... read more

Pinterest is releasing a limited-edition coffee blend with Chamberlain Coffee -- a company founded by popular Gen Z creator Emma Chamberlain. ... read more

After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt's new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. A number of the shots ... read more

YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a ... read more

Rumble "fails to allege facts plausibly showing an agreement" to boycott the platform, the WFA and others argue in papers filed Tuesday with a federal judge in Wichita Falls. ... read more

The strange world of Death Stranding just keeps on expanding. As Deadline reports, Hideo Kojima’s ghostly, post-apocalyptic video game is getting a spinoff in the form of an animated film. ... read more

The experimental feature, integrated into Search Live, allows users to ask complex, multipart questions, and have a voice conversation with the search engine, but what happens when ads start talking, too. ... read more

Facebook is adding support for passkeys on its mobile app. That means you’ll be able to log into the platform using your device’s authentication method, like your fingerprint, face scan, or ... read more