By Kimeko McCoy • November 25, 2025 • Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify This time last year, OpenAI finally seemed to reckon with the idea that it needed a cash influx by way of advertising. This year, that plan has been put into motion. In August, the tech behemoth scooped up Instacart’s former CEO Fidji …
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Companies present in every niche of the media industry are working to build and test their own AI agents. Ad tech firms hope the tech can help them cut costs and add value; agencies and advertisers hope they can use the tech to leapfrog those same ad-tech middlemen; and publishers hope the tools can grant …
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This Ad Tech Briefing covers the latest in ad tech and platforms for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → After months of testimony and a final day of unusually pointed questioning, Judge Leonie Brinkema used the closing arguments phase of the U.S. Department of …
Last week, federal lawmakers proposed changes to the 2018 Farm Bill that would effectively ban most hemp-derived THC products in a year. The proposed ban was included in the bill Congress passed to end the government shutdown. The Farm Bill had removed hemp as a controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Since the bill’s passing, …
By Tony Case • November 25, 2025 • Ivy Liu As the data center faces unprecedented demand and a critical shortage of skilled technicians, energy tech firm Schneider Electric has launched an initiative to recruit and train 400 U.S. military veterans for customer-facing service roles supporting data centers, power systems and critical facilities. The timing …
Image: Matt Smith/Foundry 4K resolution is now within reach of everyday PC users, promising a massive improvement to image quality, with four times the pixels of a 1080p display. A 4K monitor is useful not only in games and movies but also when editing documents or browsing web pages. The extra pixels make text look …
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Image: Lenovo SteamOS is better than Windows 11. At least, if you want to play games on a handheld, you’re looking for performance and efficiency, and you’re okay going without some anti-cheat games that still only run on Windows. That’s probably why people were so looking forward to the Legion Go S running SteamOS out …
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Image: Sony It’s been a few years since the PlayStation 5 came on the market, yet it still rarely goes on sale—and that’s a bummer given the $500 MSRP for the Slim Digital Edition. Fortunately, now’s your chance to snag a discount on it because Amazon is selling the PS5 Slim Digital Edition for $399… …
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Now’s your chance to catch up on The Last of us, The Pit, The Guided Age, and the other buzzy streaming shows you’ve been missing, with HBO Max uncorking a killer discount during Black Friday week. You can score a year of HBO Max with ads for just $2.99 a month, an eye-popping 73 percent discount compared to the …
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Image: MSI If I told you that you could buy a new OLED gaming monitor for “pennies,” I wouldn’t technically be lying. But since you’d need over thirty-one thousand of them—weighing 173 pounds—it wouldn’t be very practical information. What is practical is that Woot is selling a refurbished MSI 27-inch OLED monitor for $314.99 with …
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