Google lashed out at the Department of Justice’s threat to break up the company, calling the proposals “radical.” Among other things, Google says the proposals would threaten users’ privacy, stifle innovation and break Android and Chrome. Given the appeals process, it will likely be years before we know whether Google will stay in one piece.
News publishers have a new plan to beat the demonetization they suffer in the face of unrefined brand safety blocking tools. The solution is to create private marketplaces of trusted news sites that should not raise brand safety concerns; a kind of self-white listing. For example, publisher advisory firm Prohaska Consulting has launched the ProNews Collective with inventory available exclusively through its SSP partner Index Exchange.
West coast startup Infactory enjoyed a $4 million seed funding round for its online fact-checking proposition. Contrary to what you might assume, the company won’t check genAI outputs or use genAI to create its responses. Rather, it will use AI to make trusted data sources more accessible to natural language queries. That’s apparently enough for genAI-hungry investors.
A Florida district judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by tech industry associations challenging a new law designed to restrict minors’ use of social media. The judge said the associations, whose members include Meta, Google, and YouTube, had not shown the law would apply to them. He said they could refile the suit with evidence that it would.