The European Commission has classed ChatGPT as a very large online search engine, citing 159.1 million monthly users in the EU. OpenAI has four months to meet rules on audits, risk and ad transparency.
Tim Cook sent Apple staff a farewell email on August 31, thanking employees and quoting Steve Jobs. John Ternus replied with his own memo the next morning, and both reached the press within hours.
California has passed a bill that would pay news outlets $20,000 for each full-time journalist they employ, plus extra money for new hires. It now needs Governor Gavin Newsom's signature.
Sony has started more than one hundred free TV channels inside the PlayStation 5 in the United States. The channels are paid for by adverts, so advertisers can now reach tens of millions of console owners.
Optimizely has launched five AI helpers that each have a job description and run on a timetable. It also released AI models built just for marketing and a public test it says beats general-purpose tools.
Booking.com has chosen the agency 72andSunny Amsterdam to make its advertising around the world. The agency it used before, Zulu Alpha Kilo, chose not to take part in the contest, and the first new work is due in early 2027.
Nielsen has changed four things in the way it measures local television before the 2026-27 season. The main change counts viewing after one minute instead of five, which Nielsen says brings back up to 24% of viewing moments.
Dr. Squatch has hidden $1 million in prizes in a nine-week hunt led by the streamer IShowSpeed. The brand wants people to join in rather than watch another creator advert.
The US consumer watchdog is close to accusing YouTube of telling users one set of rules and then applying another, Bloomberg reports. YouTube has not commented.
Every website can now see in Search Console how often it appears in Google AI answers, and can switch itself out of them. The report still does not show clicks.
A week after an advert showing a woman pushed to the ground spread online, Callaway ended its deal with Good Good and admitted its own approval process had failed. The Good Good chief executive says Callaway is making his company take the blame.
HBO Max will show a filmed version of The Howard Stern Show every Thursday from September 17. At the same time Stern is cutting his live SiriusXM show to Mondays only.
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