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Politico Is Expanding Energy Coverage With Five Newsletter Products
Politico is packaging the growing energy-policy beat into five newsletters, with four reserved for its premium Pro subscription service.
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Australia Reopens the Fight Over How Big Tech Pays for News
A revised Australian proposal would tie payments from large digital platforms to local advertising revenue, reopening a fight over who funds journalism online.
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NSW Moves to Rethink Take-Home Assessments as AI Use Spreads
New South Wales officials are asking whether unsupervised take-home work can still reliably measure student learning in the age of generative AI.
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Network 10 Launches a One-Hour-Delayed Channel in the Streaming Era
Australia’s Network 10 is betting that a simple one-hour delay still has value, even as audiences grow accustomed to on-demand viewing.
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Francis deSouza Takes Over as Scale AI CEO
The former Illumina chief and longtime enterprise technology executive officially takes the top job as Scale AI expands beyond data services.
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Microsoft’s Next Maia AI Chip Could Arrive in September
A reported September unveiling would push Microsoft deeper into custom silicon as cloud giants race to control AI infrastructure costs and capacity.
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X Will Replace Creator Revenue Sharing With Original Content Rewards
X will end its current creator revenue-sharing program and open applications for a replacement that emphasizes original reporting, analysis, images, video and meaningful transformation.
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The Singularity Is Here. It Just Doesn’t Look Like Hollywood.
Sam Altman’s claim that AI has crossed a historic threshold is less prophecy than operating warning: Capability is compounding faster than institutions can absorb it.
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IAB’s New Video Standard Could Reshape Media Buying
A proposed two-layer taxonomy would classify video by viewing experience and impression-level signals across CTV, social, retail media and other channels.
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Microsoft Puts AI Agents to Work in Cyber Defense
Project Perception coordinates red, blue and green AI agents to identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities while keeping human operators in control.