FCC commissioner Brendan Carr has been nominated to be Trump’s @FCC chairman. Noteworthy: Carr — nominated to the FCC by Trump (2017) and re-nominated by Biden (2023) — is also one of the authors of Project 2025, which also mentions Carr as key to regulating Big Tech.
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What Stories About AI in Marketing and Commerce Matter Most?
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With Friday coming to a close, I wanted to try asking a question ahead of next week: What do people actually *want* to read more stories about related to the intersection of AI and marketing/media/commerce/etc.?
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X Updates Terms on AI Model Training From User Content
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Tomorrow is Nov. 15, which means X's updated Terms & Conditions become effective — including new rules about ways AI models can be trained on user content.
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Marketing, Data Privacy and Ethics: WebSummit 2021 Panel Discussion
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Bummed I’m not at @WebSummit this week, but just remembered a #WebSummit 2021 talk I moderated on marketing & data privacy. Panelists: @BrendanEich
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Government-Business Relations: Future Admin and X Platform Ties
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Anything else see this as sign for how the future admin and X will be tied in ways that aren’t normal government-business relations??
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Social app gains premature government verification before agency exists
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Social app with future-government ties gives unofficial non-existent government agency official government verification even before it officially exists.
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Factiva launches AI-powered summaries using Google Gemini technology
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Factiva, the Dow Jones-owned business research tool, is developed a new tool for AI-generated summaries powered by Google's Gemini models. Creating "Factiva Smart Summaries" also entailed securing content licensing deals with ~4,000 sources across 29 languages.
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Perplexity AI Advertising Strategy: Seeking Industry Insights and Perspectives
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Perplexity Experiments Advertising Strategy New Approach
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Perplexity launches ads with McCann, PMG, and major brands
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Early ad partners include agencies like Universal McCann and PMG along with advertisers like @WholeFoods and @indeed
. Here’s an example of what ads will look like, according to Perplexity’s blog post.