Ecommerce giant Amazon  –  perhaps you’ve heard of them? – also wants you shop on an app that’s synchronized with your TV viewing.  Their approach is the new Amazon Live channel, which provides an app linked to shopping programs on Prime Video or Amazon FreeVee.  Research from LG Ad Solutions shows that 45% of connected TV viewers already shop online while watching.

Elon Musk has said that X/Twitter will charge new users a “small fee” for posting on the platform. This follows the roll-out of an annual $1 fee in New Zealand and the Philippines last year. Rather than another hare-brained scheme to add revenue, Musk said it’s an attempt to block bots.

It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data.  Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions.  Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.