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Google publishes guidance for text disclaimers in Search ads
Google published a new Help Center page for text disclaimers in Search ads, providing advertisers with guidance on a feature that lets required terms, conditions and disclosures appear directly within Search ads. The feature is available globally…
Huw Edwards talks shame in first published poem as he attempts career comeback
Huw Edwards has published the first poem on his controversial new Substack page, after being met with backlash for attempting to reboot his public career. The disgraced former BBC host was given a six-month suspended prison sentence, and axed from…
Force of nature' Cathy Parson, co-founder of Publishers Group UK, dies
Sales, marketing and distribution company Publishers Group UK (PGUK) has announced its co-founder and joint managing director Cathy Parson has died aged 70, following a brief illness. Parson and her PGUK co-MD Medwyn Hughes founded Hi Marketing in…
Australia to tax Meta if it doesn't pay news publishers
Update 3 August 2026: The Australian government has tweaked how its planned News Bargaining Incentive levy will apply to tech giants. The levy is being increased from 2.25% to 2.5% but is now only on search and social media companies' digital…
Publisher's Platform: Food safety is not expensive. Outbreaks are expensive.
I laid out eight things last Friday morning on FSN that Washington should have done about Cyclospora. The obvious objection to a list like that is money — that food safety is expensive, that budgets are finite, that somebody has to pay for…
AI Scandal Around $2.4 Million Novel Kills Its Movie Deal & Spells Trouble For Future Adaptations
The latest AI scandal has killed a $2.4 million book deal and a potential movie adaptation, which has major implications for future book adaptations. Six and seven-figure book advances are exceptionally rare. However, debut author Jerry Falade…
The Future Of Higher Education Is Transparency
Michael E. Hansen is the CEO of Cengage, a global edtech company that enables student choice. For decades, higher education has been one of the most powerful drivers of economic mobility in the U.S. On average, bachelor's degree holders earn more…
Todd Blanche's Latest Trump IRS Immunity Deal Is No Concession At All
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 15: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images) Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche says he has agreed to scale back…
Biometric Update publishes 2026 Deepfake Fraud Detection Market Report | Biometric Update
Biometric Update has released its 2026 Deepfake Fraud Detection Market Report: Securing Identity in the AI Era, examining how generative AI is reshaping identity fraud and why deepfake detection is becoming a core component of digital trust rather…
Shrinking To Grow: How Future-Focused Leaders Reshape Companies
Strategy is an act of curation: deciding not only what belongs, but what must be left out. Google Gemini by Jump Associates When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he found a company that had lost any clear sense of what it was trying to make.
The Future, Made in China
Kai-Fu Lee, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company 01.AI, lives in a mirrored high-rise in Beijing, near a procession of landmarks that emperors considered the center of the cosmos. Lee takes early meetings at a nearby hotel that could…
New Yorker: China races to own the industries of the future
America has been napping or distracted by trivialities while China is racing toward the future, in part by taking advantage of President Trump's trade, immigration and budget policies. That's the eye-opening reality that Evan Osnos unfurls in a…
Aaron Donald Kalshi Market to Play This Year Trending Up
The rich get richer? Everything points to Aaron Donald returning from retirement this season. Donald currently sits with an 83% chance of playing in an NFL game this season on Kalshi's NFL market. Since the Los Angeles Rams traded for Myles Garrett…
AI boom, factory gloom: China tech soars while traditional industries feel chill
A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China's booming AI sector and its struggling traditional industries. And while arguing that this divergence was not unique to China, the…
How the baby boomer retirement 'tsunami' will impact the job market
A projected decline in the size of the American workforce is set to alter employment conditions and warp the U.S. labor market landscape for years to come. A “tsunami” of retiring baby boomers and a sharp drop in net immigration…
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