Ofcom Big Tech Review 2026: What Has Actually Changed
Ofcom has begun a wide-ranging internal review of how it is organised for the next phase of UK online safety regulation. In a 15 July 2026 letter to…
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Ofcom has begun a wide-ranging internal review of how it is organised for the next phase of UK online safety regulation. In a 15 July 2026 letter to…
Horizon3.ai has announced a $250 million Series E at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Existing investors NightDragon and NEA co-led the oversubscribed round, which lifts the…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau released “Measuring Visibility in the AI Era” on August 3, 2026, giving brands, publishers, agencies, and measurement providers a shared vocabulary for organic visibility…
Artificial Analysis has put a striking number on DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731: about $0.03 for the weighted average cost of one task in its Intelligence Index. The research firm also…
Google has reportedly reduced up to $50 million in annual work from HCLTech during a vendor-consolidation review, according to Mint’s August 2 report. The reported Google HCLTech contract…
Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said in an August 3 Decoder interview that the network expects to start monetizing in 2026 and is leaning toward taking a percentage when…
Australia’s government said on August 3 that it had finalised the design of its News Bargaining Incentive legislation. The proposed charge would apply when qualifying digital platforms do…
GoDaddy narrowed its full-year 2026 revenue outlook on July 30 in its second-quarter results. Reuters linked the tighter range to slower AI-tool adoption and weaker customer acquisition. Yet…
Reddit reported a 64% year-over-year increase in advertising revenue to $762 million in its second-quarter 2026 results released July 30. Total revenue reached $805 million, up 61%, while…
The European Commission said on July 31, 2026 that its AI Office and national authorities will begin enforcing the AI Act on August 2. The same date starts…
Amazon’s advertising services revenue reached $19.809 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 26% from $15.694 billion a year earlier, according to Amazon’s July 30 earnings release.…
ADA completed its acquisition of Algonomy on July 30, 2026, adding retail AI decisioning across ecommerce, marketing, merchandising, and supply chain. The ADA Algonomy acquisition expands the combined…