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☆ Reddit has acquired an AI startup to beef up its ad business in a deal worth around $40 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Brands like Unilever, L'Oréal, and NotCo pay Memorable AI an annual fee to use its tools. The company said this allows advertisers to reduce the time they would usually spend testing and optimizing ad creative, the company said. Related storiesThe Memorable AI team has joined Reddit as part of the acquisition. AdvertisementIts ads business is growing, but still tiny compared to Google, Meta, Amazon, and TikTok.

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☆ Amazon to report quarterly earnings after the close
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon is set to report second-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Amazon is rounding out what's been a mixed earnings season for leading tech companies. Microsoft 's beat on the top and bottom lines was overshadowed by lower-than-expected Azure cloud revenue. Amazon, which leads the cloud infrastructure market, is expected to report growth of 17.6%, according to StreetAccount. During the quarter, Amazon secured a highly sought after position as the third rights partner in the NBA's new 11-year TV deal.

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☆ Sports streaming venture Venu priced at $42.99 a month
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Venu Sports, the sports streaming joint venture between Disney's ESPN, Warner Bros. The high-end pricing — common in direct-to-consumer sports streaming services — was expected in part so it wouldn't shake up any carriage agreements with traditional pay TV distributors. Live sports remain the highest rated TV programming and are the most costly part of the pay TV bundle. Users who sign up for Venu at $42.99 a month will have access to that entry pricing for 12 months, Venu noted Thursday — signaling there could be price increases ahead. The upcoming bundle will be priced at $16.99 a month with ads, and $29.99 a month ad-free.

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris each unleashed a new wave of television ads Tuesday as they race to secure an advantage in a presidential campaign dramatically altered in recent weeks. In its first major ad blitz targeting Harris, the Trump campaign is zeroing in on her immigration record in ads running across several key battleground states. It’s a sign that the former president has settled on a longstanding GOP line of attack against the vice president, after grappling with the abrupt change atop the Democratic ticket. Trump, in two new campaign ads, seeks to define Harris on his terms by relying on what has been a political liability for the Biden administration: the management of the US-Mexico border. In response, Harris campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said Trump is “running on his trademark lies” and said the former president opposed a congressional border deal that would have helped with enforcement.

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☆ States target AI and deepfakes as election interference threat looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Piper Hudspethblackburn | Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

While Michigan, Washington, Minnesota, Texas and California already had laws regulating deepfakes, Minnesota updated their law this year to require a candidate to forfeit their office or nomination if they violate the state’s deepfake laws, among other provisions. In states such as New York, New Mexico and Alabama, victims can seek a court order to stop the content. Katie Hobbs signed his proposal into law in May, along with another AI bill that requires disclosures in campaign ads. Big Tech has already taken some steps to moderate deepfake content. TikTok and Meta (the parent company of Instagram, Threads and Facebook) announced plans in recent months to label AI content, while YouTube requires creators to disclose when videos are AI-created.

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Some of those contributors are among those involved in a donor collective supporting Mr. Trump. Mr. Buskirk, who made some money in the insurance business, has strong relationships with tech donors. Some of those contributors are among those involved in a donor collective called the Rockbridge Network that Mr. Buskirk created. Its twice-a-year meetings have drawn appearances by Mr. Trump, as well as megadonors including Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, Steve Wynn and David Sacks. Mr. Buskirk gained a following in the Trump orbit with a publication called American Greatness.

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☆ Jim Cramer praises Boeing's new CEO as a 'hands-on operator' who will be good for the stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Matthew J. Belvedere | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The stock, however, was up 2% after Boeing announced its new CEO, industry veteran Kelly Ortberg. Jim Cramer said Wednesday that Ortberg is a "real serious guy, hands-on operator." Cramer said the new CEO will send Boeing shares higher: "But it." It will continue to be good, and we're not in it," Cramer said, referring to not owning the stock in the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. "Mastercard is doing better than Visa because of ancillary businesses they have in addition to cross-border," Cramer said.

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☆ Amazon is poaching from NBCU and Disney as it takes them on for TV ad dollars
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Amazon is raiding TV rivals, including NBCU and Disney, for talent to boost Prime Video ad sales. Prime Video ads launched in January, leveraging sports and scale. Amazon faces challenges integrating video ad sales and sharing viewer data with advertisers. The e-commerce giant started running ads in its Prime Video streaming service in January. That's given Amazon a leg up over established TV players and Netflix, whose ads business has grown slowly for the past two years and has already shaken up its ads leadership twice.

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☆ Meta's $19 billion bid to own messaging in the US gains steam — and AI could give it an edge over Apple's iMessage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Meta is on a mission to dominate messaging apps in the US, and AI is helping it gain steam. WhatsApp hit 100 million monthly active US users last week; it has more than 2 billion globally. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . After buying WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock, Meta last week reached a milestone, crossing 100 million monthly active users of the messaging app in the US. While WhatsApp is widely used worldwide — it notched 2 billion users globally in 2020 — it hasn't gained as strong a foothold in the US, trailing behind other messaging services, most notably Apple's iMessage.

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☆ Why Silicon Valley Is Going to War Against the Media, Journalists
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Just 20 years ago journalists covered the tech industry "like it didn't matter, like it was this hobbyist, interesting, plucky thing." The pro-tech media gives tech's main characters the chance to write their way back to the original storyline. Trae Stephens, a partner at Founders Fund, described Pirate Wires as a kind of daily affirmation for Silicon Valley. Related storiesTrae Stephens, a partner at Founders Fund, described Pirate Wires as a kind of daily affirmation for Silicon Valley. Of the members of the news media I talked to about pro-tech media, some were backhandedly laudatory.

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☆ How Harris may win back a critical group of voters who abandoned Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

With Harris at the top of the ticket, Democrats now see a chance to refocus voters on the issue and restore their margins among the abortion rights voters who had notably drifted away from Biden. In both the 2020 and 2022 campaigns, voters who backed legal abortion provided overwhelming support to Biden and other Democratic candidates. Across all of those battleground states, Biden this year was performing well below that level with voters who support legal abortion, polls have found. Those abortion rights voters also split about evenly on whether Biden or Trump was better for the economy. “Many of them aren’t single issue abortion voters; they are worried about the economy and inflation, they are worried about immigration,” McLaughlin said.

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☆ Perplexity AI will share revenue with publishers after plagiarism accusations
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Perplexity AI on Tuesday debuted a revenue-sharing model for publishers after more than a month of plagiarism accusations. Media outlets and content platforms including Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and WordPress.com are the first to join the company's "Publishers Program." Under the new partner program, any time a user asks a question and Perplexity generates advertising revenue from citing one of the publisher's articles in its answer, Perplexity will share a flat percentage of that revenue. "Some of it grew out of conversations we were having with publishers about integrating Perplexity APIs and technology into their products," Shevelenko said. But not all news organizations are gearing up for a fight, and some are instead joining forces with AI startups like OpenAI, Perplexity and others.

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In its first major ad blitz targeting Harris, the Trump campaign is zeroing in on her immigration record in ads running across several key battleground states. It’s a sign that the former president has settled on a longstanding GOP line of attack against the vice president, after grappling with the abrupt change atop the Democratic ticket. It’s part of what the Harris campaign said will be a $50 million blitz in the run-up to next month’s Democratic National Convention – fueled, in part, by the record-breaking fundraising the Harris campaign has seen since Biden’s departure from the race and endorsement of her candidacy a little more than a week ago. During an influx of unaccompanied migrant children, Biden tasked the vice president with overseeing diplomatic efforts in Central America. “Donald Trump wants to take our country backward,” Harris can be heard saying in the ad.

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☆ Harris goes on offensive on immigration, comparing her record with Trump’s
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Priscilla Alvarez | Piper Hudspethblackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive on immigration at her rally in Atlanta Tuesday, attempting to counter former President Donald Trump’s attacks on the issue. It paints Trump as unserious on border security and cites his decision to scuttle the bipartisan immigration deal that included some of the toughest border security measures in recent memory. The video comes on the heels of two Trump campaign ads taking direct aim at Harris’ immigration portfolio. While another shows a video of Harris dancing at an event, stating: “This is America’s border czar — and she’s failed us.”Both ads conclude by describing Harris as “failed. Biden administration officials have repeatedly maintained that Harris focused on long-term fixes, while the Department of Homeland Security remained responsible for overseeing border security.

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☆ 'Potential boost from TikTok uncertainty': Here's what Wall Street expects from Meta's 2nd-quarter earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAll eyes are on Meta Platforms with the company set to report its second-quarter earnings results after the market close on Wednesday. AdvertisementHere's what Wall Street expects from Meta's second-quarter earnings report. Looking forward, Post highlighted that a potential TikTok ban in early 2025 could provide a big boost to Meta's advertising business. Advertisement"With political spend, and potential TikTok ban in 1Q'25, Meta could also see an ad spend benefit in 2H'24," Post said. The company also has the potential to offer guidance on the monetization potential of its licensing of Llama, its open-source large language model.

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☆ Harris recalibrates policy stances as she adjusts to role atop Democratic ticket
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Arit John | Kayla Tausche | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —As the burgeoning Kamala Harris campaign works behind the scenes to refine its policy platform, the vice president has increasingly found herself clarifying which of her positions have shifted over the years. A Harris campaign official said Monday she no longer supports a fracking ban. Single-payer health careHarris’ campaign also confirmed this week that the vice president no longer supports a single-payer health care system. As vice president, Harris supported a bipartisan border bill that would have ramped up enforcement at the US-Mexico border. In June 2024, the White House announced a crackdown on asylum claims meant to continue reducing the flow – a policy that Harris’ campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, indicated would continue under a Harris administration.

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☆ Google's AI Olympics ad is drawing jeers online but scores surprisingly well among viewers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewAn Olympics ad from Google depicting a father using its Gemini AI assistant to help his daughter compose a letter to her favorite athlete has drawn sharp criticism from online commentators. Google's "Dear Sydney" spot first aired on TV during the broadcast of the opening ceremony on July 24 and is also available on YouTube. Related stories"It follows a coherent story, focuses on characters with agency and vitality, and prioritizes people over the product," said Jon Evans, System1 chief customer officer, of Google's ad. Still, several ad experts have said Google's marketing department — which created the ad in-house rather than using an ad agency — should have done a better job of reading the room. The "Dear Sydney" spot was still airing on US TV on Tuesday morning, according to the measurement firm iSpot.

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☆ Gold chains and leather jackets: The business deals behind the tech industry's most powerful bromance
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't let the tomatoes touch after he cut them into perfectly uniform slices. "In our company, I want every engineer and every software developer to have an AI or many AIs," Huang said to Zuckerberg. Huang and Zuckerberg have big stakes in that vision coming true, according to Paul Baier, CEO and principal analyst at GAI Insights. Huang needs to ensure LLMs keep building with Nvidia chips and Zuckerberg needs Huang's credibility to bolster his semi-open-source strategy.

Persons: —, Mark Zuckerberg didn't, Huang, Zuckerberg, Google's, Meta's, Meta, Paul Baier, Baier Organizations: Service, Business, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, AIs Locations: Hawaii

☆ With Dueling Ads, Harris and Trump Both Try to Define Her as a Candidate
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Reid J. Epstein | Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The race to define Vice President Kamala Harris began in earnest on Tuesday, with both her campaign and former President Donald J. Trump’s team unveiling television advertisements that aim to explain her biography to voters in battleground states. “Kamala Harris has always known who she represents.”Mr. Trump’s new ad, meanwhile, attacks her as being weak on the border. It suggests that she is responsible for millions of border crossings and a quarter-million deaths from fentanyl, which the ad says occurred “on Harris’s watch.” It closes with a new Trump tagline for Ms. Harris: “Failed. Dangerously Liberal.”Just over a week ago, Ms. Harris replaced President Biden as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer. Despite being the vice president and having represented the nation’s largest state as one of California’s senators, Ms. Harris is relatively unknown by many of the voters in battleground states who are likely to decide the presidential election.

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☆ Temu and Shein's soaring popularity has Wall Street eyeing China's influence on tech earnings
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

The topic of Temu and Shein's growth will hover over tech earnings this week, as Amazon reports second-quarter results alongside Meta, eBay and Etsy. watch nowIn Amazon's report on Thursday, the company is expected to show revenue growth of about 11% to $148.6 billion, according to LSEG. That's where Temu and Shein come into play, as merchants now have new ways to get products to American consumers. Amazon has continued to highlight its delivery prowess and its focus on speed in the face of growing competition from Temu and Shein. However, while it's long touted itself as the "lowest-priced U.S. retailer," Amazon has shown that it's well aware of Temu and Shein's increasing popularity.

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☆ A couple unhappy in their marriages met on Ashley Madison. They're still together 20 years after cheating on their spouses and have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewWhen Michael Oshust and Stephania Meyer first met in 2004, they were both married to other people. 'Yearning' for partners with similar interestsOshust and Meyer met on the dating site Ashley Madison. Related storiesMost messages Meyer received on Ashley Madison were asking for nudes or no-strings-attached sex, which she wasn't interested in. Oshust and Meyers know cheating is wrong, but they don't regret it"I don't regret meeting Michael at all. But at the same time, if it wasn't for Ashley Madison, we wouldn't have been together.

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☆ Google’s Olympics ad went viral for all the wrong reasons
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Well, a new Google ad says artificial intelligence can now do that for you. It shows the young girl training to compete like her hero, thanks to hurdling technique tips generated by Google’s AI search feature. But many early AI tools seem to do the opposite, instead enabling computers to generate traditionally human creative outputs such as art, music and stories. And yet tech firms have forged ahead with rolling out AI tools that can create new emojis, speak and even generate videos. Google did not respond to CNN’s request for comment regarding the backlash to the Gemini ad.

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☆ The Olympics are getting a luxury makeover this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Madeline Berg | Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

From the custom Louis Vuitton cases presenting the Olympic medals and torch, to Armani attire donning Team Italy, luxury and beauty brands will be all over the Paris Games. LVMH is one of the biggest brand partners of the Paris Games, with the conglomerate spending about $160 million, Bloomberg reported. AdvertisementThe Paris Games also represent a return to form, with the crowds back for the first time since the pandemic. "A large amount of the global population will be watching" the Olympics, Fflur Roberts, the global head of luxury at Euromonitor International, told BI. The Olympics are also a high-stakes chance to prove luxury is "worth it" following a recent backlash against sky-high prices.

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That's why we've put together everything you need to know about where to watch free Olympics tennis live streams. If you want a piece of the action gratis, too, we can help you bypass geo-blocks that would usually stop overseas viewers from accessing the free Olympics tennis live streams. Watch Olympics tennis online. How to watch Olympics tennis in the USAThe best, and by far the cheapest, option to watch Olympic tennis in the USA is Peacock. Where to watch Olympics tennis in the UKThe UK's BBC will show select Olympics tennis events for free via the BBC iPlayer.

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