Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines |

Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, enabling customers to now run Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle…

Medium's CEO explains what it took to stop losing $2.6M monthly |

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine announced on Friday that the publishing platform has remained profitable since August of last year, when it first achieved this milestone.…

GenAI as a shopping assistant set to explode during Prime Day sales |

1:07 PM PDT · July 8, 2025 A new report estimates that AI will be a larger-than-ever part of the online shopping process during Amazon’s…

Not everyone is thrilled with Threads' DMs |

Earlier this week, Instagram Threads launched what the company said was its most-requested feature to date: direct messages (DMs). However, the company is now facing…

Meta users say paying for Verified support has been useless in the face of mass bans |

When Meta launched its paid verification service, Meta Verified, in 2023, the tech giant promised users and businesses alike that part of the offering would…

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines |

Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting from users increasingly getting their news directly…

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven't yet shared |

Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been…

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue |

Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched…

Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results |

10:55 AM PDT · June 26, 2025 After Google temporarily paused the rollout of its buggy AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature in Google Photos, the company…

New code in Spotify's app references the long-awaited 'lossless' tier |

It’s been over four years since Spotify first announced its plans to launch a lossless audio tier that has yet to arrive. After numerous leaks…