honestly the fact that we've gone ahead and let *experian* get into the ad targeting game is evidence of total societal failure

OK, it's official. AI Mode comes to GSC. Google just updated its documentation about this. And like Patrick Stox saw, Google is not grouping all links together as a block. Each listing will have its own position. Then links within carousels and image packs within AI mode will be

If you haven’t figured it out, day one at Cannes has been all CTV/streaming. 📺

This is bullshit.

I mean *yes* but also the problem is that many brands are explicitly attempting to avoid appearing next to LGBTQ+ content generally, which is extremely troubling. admonsters.com/social-platfor…

I call this the ad tech profitability escalation cycle: "Then you’ve got the stories in which people are more clearly using new AI tools against one another in an escalatory way." nymag.com/intelligencer/…

If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.

lol

Google Ad Manager sucks so hard. I occasionally forget but it never fails to remind me.

Statement from Executive Editor Matt Murray: “For three decades, Ellen Nakashima has been one of the most careful, fair-minded, and highly regarded reporters covering national security. Reaching out to potential sources rather than relying solely on official government press

Seeing a bunch of Yieldmo ads with exposed incorrectly configured infinite loop to Kinesis. If it is happening across a lot of ads that's going to be an expensive AWS bill

New: Inside the last-ditch fight to save funding for NPR and PBS, feat. Kerry Washington, Bill Nye, Ken Burns and a farmer's market bilateral with Sen. Lisa Murkowski: nytimes.com/2025/07/15/bus…

The fked up endpoint of uncontrolled illogical levels of brand safety, when publishers or platforms refuse to push back and defend the value of serious conversations about serious topics youtu.be/mo2FdoGndsM?si…

In an inevitable move, Substack is going ad tech. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/bus…

We are hiring a Director of AI & Machine Learning. If you have at least 10+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, or data science, including a proven record of deploying ML systems, apply today: wapo.st/m/Washington-P… #teamwashpost #hiring #aijobs

1/ 🚨 Major supply chain breach just hit the JavaScript ecosystem. Attackers hijacked popular npm packages — including is (~3M downloads/week) — to silently ship remote access malware into dev environments. Here’s what happened, and how Socket caught it 🧵

👀 iabtechlab.com/standards/llm-…

Subscription exhaustion is real admonsters.com/as-viewers-dit…

Random questions for a fun Friday: What is the outlook for the “Opt-out Preference Signal” (OOPS) in profiling and automated decision-making?

"investors are clearly pricing in AI labs’ ability to monetize free users" All AI will end up significantly leaning on ads for funding in the near future. The only q is how invasive & sneaky the approach. Or it will be the more obvious banner ads? eastwind.substack.com/p/frontier-ai-…