Meta’s Luck of the Irish Leads to AI Pause

Irish regulators are interrupting Meta’s plans to use data from Facebook and Instagram users to train the AI model it plans to roll out in the EU. It looks like the EU, historically a tough data-privacy regulator (GDPR anyone?), will be tough sledding for Meta as it seeks to use its vast resource of user-generated […]
Rich Get Richer: Big Tech’s Ad-Revenue Dominance

Big tech continues to grow its collective ad revenue market share. Specifically, it accounts for 65.6 percent of U.S. ad revenue. That’s notably up from 30.8 percent in 2008, signaling its escalating dominance.