Digital Marketing

ChatGPT was hit with a major outage that affected users worldwide, including those in The US 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.” 

The Associated Press (AP) has upgraded its artificial intelligence guidelines, Digwatch reports. AP Journalists may use AI for early-stage research, translation, document summaries, transcription and for help with grammar, spelling, search optimization, headlines and story summaries. However, AP maintains that AI cannot replace original reporting, source verification, fact-checking or editorial judgement. And all AI outputs

More than 500 public media staffers have been laid off since Congress stripped public radio and televisions stations of most of their federal funding, according to a tally by SemiPublic, NPR reports. And public stations started scrambling. South Dakota  Public Broadcasting cancelled the weekly public affairs show, In The Moment, and laid off the host, Lori Walsh. But

For decades, marketers have largely viewed choice as a source of value. But at some point, abundance creates friction. Consumers need help interpreting information.

“Online communities are offering unfiltered candor and anonymity that traditional networks often cannot provide,” says a Weber Shandwick EVP.

The company’s move comes after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that halted the deal until at least August 17.

The tech industry group NetChoice on Friday appealed a judge’s ruling that allowed Nebraska to enforce a portion of a new state law requiring social platforms to give parents tools to monitor minors’ messages with other users.

A federal appellate panel on Friday preserved a block on portions of a Texas law that would have required social-media platforms to block “harmful” content to minors, including material that “promotes,” “glorifies,” or “facilitates” eating disorders, self-harm, substance abuse, and “grooming.”

The European Commission has fined Google $1 billion, claiming it breached the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

Whenever tech platforms hit operational disruptions or inventory limits, they don’t reduce prices. Instead, they introduce new automated formats and adjust auction dynamics.