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News Corp. has filed a countersuit against Brave, a search engine, alleging that it  distributed versions of articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post to AI firms in acts of “flagrant theft,” Reuters reports.  Brave had sued News Corp. in 2025, asking a federal court to rule that its actions are legal. But News Corp. rejects that view. […]

Comscore says its Proximic by Comscore platform has been integrated with Acast, Libsyn, SiriusXM, Spotify, and Triton Digital in a move to provide transcript-level targeting to programmatic podcast advertisers, Inside Radio reports. The arrangement allows advertisers to buy podcast and streaming audio inventory based on the individual episodes instead of broad-audience demographics and show-level genres. “Brands recognize that

A Florida teenager has withdrawn a social media addiction lawsuit against Meta a week before it was to go to trial, The New York Times reports. The 15-year old youth, identified only by his initials, R.K.C., dropped the suit because he was satisfied with unspecified settlements and did not want to endure a trial. Meta countered: “The claims

A group of thousands of authors has won a $1.5 billion settlement from Anthropic that their lead lawyer calls “the largest known copyright recovery in history,” the Guardian reports.  In the case filed in 2024 by Andrea Bartz and two other authors, the plaintiffs alleged that Anthropic used their protected work to power Claude chatbots.

Awareness campaign from Definium tells mental healthcare providers disregulated brain circuitry may contribute to chronic anxiety symptoms.

Alphabet has recorded double-digit growth for 12 consecutive quarters. But Google faces challenges, as reports suggest Reddit is considering shutting off its flow of information for use in Google’s AI engines. And massive investments have begun to raise questions on the stability of spending funds based on forecasts for long-term demand.

Pinterest has announced the return of its “Inclusion Fund,” an ongoing program designed to offer monetary and educational support to up-and-coming creators from a diverse range of backgrounds who are utilizing the platform’s “inclusive features.”

“X has not shown, or even come close to showing, that the order is obsolete, unfair, or contrary to the public interest,” Senators Ed Markey, Richard Blumenthal and Ron Wyden say in a letter sent Wednesday to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson.

“Meta might prefer that Section 230 grant it sweeping immunity, but that is not the law,” the Consumer Federation of America argues in new court papers.

The hope for a technological break with decadence is nothing new. You may remember some of the buzzy concepts in this long inventory of hype: The Global Village, The Information Superhighway, Cyberspace, The New Economy, move fast and break things…