Business, technology and what comes next.
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Retail, media, marketing and the evolution of consumer behavior.
French news groups are pressing the competition authority to examine how Google’s AI search features use journalism and affect referrals.
Low-priced menus can generate attention, but diners are judging the full meal, experience and price—not a promotional item in isolation.
The 9th Circuit dismissed an early appeal from major platforms, allowing more than 3,000 federal cases to continue without deciding the allegations.
Politico is packaging the growing energy-policy beat into five newsletters, with four reserved for its premium Pro subscription service.
A revised Australian proposal would tie payments from large digital platforms to local advertising revenue, reopening a fight over who funds journalism online.
A new preprint found that 85.6% of restaurants, cafes and bars in two Bali markets were never recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity. The strongest signals for inclusion were tied to documentation, not star ratings.
David Deno takes over Cracker Barrel after a failed identity overhaul became a national controversy. The next design challenge is not modernization. It is rebuilding permission to change.
A proposed two-layer taxonomy would classify video by viewing experience and impression-level signals across CTV, social, retail media and other channels.
Tehran’s six conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz tie commercial passage to wider military, sanctions and financial negotiations.
DoorDash’s order volume is still growing quickly, but the more consequential shift is underneath the marketplace: a delivery network increasingly designed to choose among human couriers, robots and drones order by order.
