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Meta’s limited ad targeting options and Amazon’s ad product investments are leading brands to shift their budgets to Amazon; Amazon’s ad business grew 19% in Q4 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta’s limited ad targeting options and Amazon’s ad product investments are leading brands to shift their budgets to Amazon; Amazon’s ad business grew 19% in Q4  —  – Facebook’s more limited targeted capabilities coupled with Amazon’s investment in ads products is leading a growing number of brands to shift their ad

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Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar

Opera’s new tool summarizes webpages, and it apparently works on Verge articles! | Image: Opera Opera’s adding a ChatGPT-powered tool to its sidebar that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles. The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company’s broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft’s doing with

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Some local legislators and residents in Northern Virginia, home to ~275 data centers with dozens more planned, complain of land use, cooling fan noise, and more (Antonio Olivo/Washington Post)

Antonio Olivo / Washington Post: Some local legislators and residents in Northern Virginia, home to ~275 data centers with dozens more planned, complain of land use, cooling fan noise, and more  —  A drone soared over a cluster of data center buildings in Northern Virginia, recording video of rooftop exhaust fans whose constant whir …

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Sources and memo: Zappos laid off over 300 employees in January, or ~20% of its workforce, including in customer service, as part of broader layoffs at Amazon (Kirsten Grind/Wall Street Journal)

Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: Sources and memo: Zappos laid off over 300 employees in January, or ~20% of its workforce, including in customer service, as part of broader layoffs at Amazon  —  A round of layoffs marks latest major change to the tech giant’s subsidiary  —  Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse

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Some local legislators and residents in Northern Virginia, home to ~275 data centers with dozens more planned, complain of land use, cooling fan noise, and more (Antonio Olivo/Washington Post)

Antonio Olivo / Washington Post: Some local legislators and residents in Northern Virginia, home to ~275 data centers with dozens more planned, complain of land use, cooling fan noise, and more  —  A drone soared over a cluster of data center buildings in Northern Virginia, recording video of rooftop exhaust fans whose constant whir …

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Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar

Opera’s new tool summarizes webpages, and it apparently works on Verge articles! | Image: Opera Opera’s adding a ChatGPT-powered tool to its sidebar that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles. The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company’s broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft’s doing with

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Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar

Opera’s new tool summarizes webpages, and it apparently works on Verge articles! | Image: Opera Opera’s adding a ChatGPT-powered tool to its sidebar that generates brief summaries of webpages and articles. The feature, called “shorten,” is part of the company’s broader plans to integrate AI tools into its browser, similar to what Microsoft’s doing with

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An advertising joint venture by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone to rival Meta and Google wins unconditional EU antitrust approval (Charlotte Van Campenhout/Reuters)

Charlotte Van Campenhout / Reuters: An advertising joint venture by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone to rival Meta and Google wins unconditional EU antitrust approval  —  Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), Orange (ORAN.PA), Telefonica (TEF.MC) and Vodafone (VOD.L) on Friday secured unconditional EU antitrust approval …

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Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023 (Clare Duffy/CNN)

Clare Duffy / CNN: Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023  —  New York CNN —  —  More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform …

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Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023 (Clare Duffy/CNN)

Clare Duffy / CNN: Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023  —  New York CNN —  —  More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform …

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Sources: Meta has delayed finalizing multiple teams’ budgets while it prepares a fresh round of job cuts, slowing down projects even in priority areas (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Meta has delayed finalizing multiple teams’ budgets while it prepares a fresh round of job cuts, slowing down projects even in priority areas  —  Mark Zuckerberg’s aim of wrestling costs in his ‘year of efficiency’ causes disruption at the social media company

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How Rumble, which claims to have 71M MAUs, became the only success story in right-wing social media, by letting creators who are banned elsewhere monetize video (John Herrman/New York Magazine)

John Herrman / New York Magazine: How Rumble, which claims to have 71M MAUs, became the only success story in right-wing social media, by letting creators who are banned elsewhere monetize video  —  For a moment, the right’s longtime dream of an alternative social media seemed within reach.

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