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Despite privacy concerns around its smart glasses rollout, Meta will implement a facial-recognition step in the process for users to acquire a free “Facebook Verified” badge and prove themselves to be real among more AI-generated accounts.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is pressing a federal court to allow him to proceed with his claim that Meta violated a state misappropriation law by serving Facebook ads with fake CBD endorsements.

Tiffany blue, UPS brown, T-Mobile magenta. Now in an ad tech industry first, ROKT has joined the list of branded colors with Beetroot by ROKT.

If my dog wants something from me, he says so. AI-enabled devices want something from me too. They just won’t say what it is.

Paramount Skydance is testing a new feature that allows new users to sample and stay on the platform for free for longer time periods – delivering short-video ad -supported content.

Entertainment takes a permanent holiday with a new serial-killer police procedural premiering Monday on Hulu.

“The Odyssey” had one of the strongest second weekends for an R-rated movie, following its leading $123.5 million opening of a week ago – the biggest weekend opening for any movie so far in 2026. The movie’s box-office revenue declined just 30% week-over-week.

Website traffic from bots and AI agents surpassed human traffic for the first time last month, AdExchanger reports, according to data shared to Cloudflare. Advertisers have historically avoided bot traffic that was caused by fraud, unauthorized scraping and low-value that shows little sign of consumer intent. Measurement and ad tech platforms will need to better identify non-human activity

Website traffic from bots and AI agents surpassed human traffic for the first time last month, AdExchanger reports, sourcing to Cloudfare. Advertisers have historically avoided bot traffic that was caused by fraud, unauthorized scraping and low-value that little sign of consumer intent. Measurement and ad tech platforms will need to better identify non-human activity that signals. 

ChatGPT was hit with a major outage that affected users worldwide, including those in the U.S. and Europe, Bleeping Computer reported on Saturday. The incident, which also affected OpenAI’s coding platform Codex, started at 5 a.m. ET. OpenAI acknowledged the outage on its status platform and said it is “investigating the issue for the listed services.”