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Chicago Public Media is partnering with the Illinois Public Broadcasters (IPB), a network of public media stations, to strengthen coverage of the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The two entities will combine their financial resources to jointly pay for two full-time statehouse reporters. 

Hearst News selects Magnite as its preferred dealer for high-impact ad formats.

OpenAI released an image engine for ChatGPT with “thinking capabilities” this week, as it prepares to take the needed steps to build an ad platform that can handle more complex queries and images.

The tech industry group CCIA, which sued to block enforcement of the law, withdrew its suit Tuesday.

Lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a privacy bill that would override laws in at least 20 states, and would not require businesses to allow consumers to reject common forms of ad targeting.

Google Cloud has announced a $750 million fund to support its 120,000 partners in advancing joint customers’ transformation with agentic AI.

Threads is rolling out “Live Chats,” a new way for brands, creators and fans to stoke conversation around relevant real-time events.

Microsoft Executive Vice President Ryan Roslansky has named longtime LinkedIn employee and former COO Daniel Shapero as the social media and jobs platform’s new CEO.

A year after the ad industry launched an ethical AI certification program, publishers in its ad-supported media supply chain now have one too.

Revenue, research and insights teams at Trusted Media Brands (TMB) are using AI tools to provide advertisers with a coherent narrative, AdExchanger reports. This isn’t easy, given that inventory spans print, web, social, streaming and newsletters. “The magazine subscriber doesn’t look anything like the TikTok viewer, at least on paper,” says Michael Boccacino, vice president