Washington had restricted exports of semiconductor design software in tit-for-tat over trade talks

Rising demand among marketers for AI search expertise is driving more agencies to create specialist units intended to help clients navigate the tech and its impact on consumer habits.

In recent months media shops like Jellyfish, Wpromote and Kepler have each launched or expanded AI search services that offer clients a means of partially gauging how applications like ChatGPT and Gemini represent and understand their brands.

Among the advertisers attempting to measure the “share of model” (as opposed to their share of market) within large language models (LLMs) is consumer pharmaceutical firm Haleon. The company is currently testing how Meta’s Llama model represents its Advil and Emergen-C brands in user-generated search results.

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At first glance, Cluely reads like a parody of startup culture. A 21-year-old founder broadcasting viral videos about chatting on job interviews, dating with AI overlay and hosting parties shut down for “too much aura”. 

And yet here we are: Andreessen Horowitz just led a $15 million investment into the startup that turns a person’s screen into an invisible assistant — a kind of real-time whisperer for meetings, sales calls and even exams. 

Or at least that’s what it wants to be. Because Cluely launched a narrative before it launched a tool. And somehow, it’s working. 

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This week’s Media Briefing looks into Cloudflare’s new tool that lets publishers block all AI crawlers – at the click of a button – and why publishers are celebrating.

• An end to publishers’ AI crawler Whack-a-Mole
• Google ends tests of a feature that previewed recipes, Forbes CEO shares AI strategy, and more.

Cloudflare’s red-button blocker

Publishers everywhere have had reason to celebrate this week as a single Cloudflare toggle gave them a rare, decisive victory in the battle to keep AI bot crawlers off their content.

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Condé Nast execs are pressured to retain ad dollars after Anna Wintour announced last week that she will no longer oversee the day-to-day operations of Vogue, the luxury brand she has led as editor-in-chief since 1988.

Wintour will remain in her broader roles as Condé Nast’s chief content officer and global editorial director for Vogue. And while it’s too soon for the ad industry to record a change in brands continuing to advertise or not, one agency exec acknowledged to Digiday the weight of Wintour’s moves: “[ad money] flows to Vogue because of Anna.”

Wintour has become synonymous with the Vogue brand. But the fashion media landscape has changed since Vogue’s print-dominant heyday. Brands are contending with shrinking referral traffic, ad dollars are shifting to search and social, the creator economy is booming, and generative AI technology is curating fashion and summarizing content in search engines.

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Veo 3, Google’s latest video generation model, is now available around the world in the Gemini app for AI Pro subscribers.

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Google is giving Android TV a rare update, with some new promoted categories appearing on the homescreen for some.

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Big Tech group accused of using inaccurate data in effort to identify materials that can attract carbon dioxide from the air

The heads of Airbus and BNP Paribas join intense lobbying effort against new regulations

Results that look great in a lab sometimes struggle in real life

Technology can make a boring job even more boring and an interesting job even more interesting

Qonto, which targets European freelancers and SMBs, currently operates with a payment institution license it obtained in 2018.

The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip design software to China, U.S.-based Synopsys announced.

It’s Wednesday, July 2, 2025, and we’re back with your daily snapshot of where capital is flowing and which startups are commanding attention in the global tech landscape. Today’s edition arrives a little late, but it’s packed with heavyweight deals […]

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The electric vehicle maker has posted its second straight quarter of declining deliveries this year, continuing to pay the price for Elon Musk's political turn.

The tech giant is posting staggering profits and leading the AI revolution.

I’ve been reviewing one of XREAL’s more recent releases of AR glasses: the . These are certainly the most versatile pair of AR glasses I’ve tried out so far, and they actually really come to life somewhere you wouldn’t expect: the M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 26. come in at just under 3 ounces (84 grams), making them easy to just carry around.

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The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

The robots kicked, scored and tumbled while competing at a tourmentant in Beijing.

The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of the Chicago ABC owned station, which likely made the cameos possible.