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  • Google's CodeMender agent fixed 72 open source flaws in six months 10 min read

    Google's CodeMender agent fixed 72 open source flaws in six months

    Roughly 10% of Alphabet staff wrote open source code in 2025, and 20,000 outside accounts committed to its projects. Ad tech runs on standards Google seeded.

  • DoubleVerify finds dozens of Android apps a month showing ads after calls 10 min read

    DoubleVerify finds dozens of Android apps a month showing ads after calls

    Apps abuse Android's Display over other apps permission to fire ads when a call ends, then vanish from the recents list. Can pre-install scans catch them all?

  • Only 16% of brands track AI visibility as IAB sets measurement standard 36 min read

    Only 16% of brands track AI visibility as IAB sets measurement standard

    More than 20 vendors sell AI visibility tools that disagree on the same brand. New IAB rules set out what buyers must be told before trusting any of the data.

  • AMC draws 10.2 million moviegoers as Spider-Man opens to $355 million 10 min read

    AMC draws 10.2 million moviegoers as Spider-Man opens to $355 million

    Food and drink revenue beat the Avengers: Endgame record from 2019, and nine titles have opened strongly since March. What does that mean for cinema ad buys?

  • WhatsApp brings calling to the browser, no download required 9 min read

    WhatsApp brings calling to the browser, no download required

    Waiting rooms, QuickHD and noise suppression arrive with the browser calls in Meta's July 28 update, widening WhatsApp reach just as Status ads scale globally.

  • Advertisers face irreversible AI label field across 2 Google ad APIs 11 min read

    Advertisers face irreversible AI label field across 2 Google ad APIs

    Setting syntheticContentAttestationStatus to IS_SYNTHETIC triggers labels in the EU, India and New York state. Once written, agencies cannot revert to unset.

  • Teads sues Google for 6.88 trillion impressions it says never arrived 15 min read

    Teads sues Google for 6.88 trillion impressions it says never arrived

    Teads sued Google on August 3 over 6.88 trillion impressions lost to rival exchanges, as Reddit, Suno and EU regulators pressed claims of their own this week.

  • StackAdapt logs 15,000 weekly workflows as Ivy Studio cuts hours to minutes 11 min read

    StackAdapt logs 15,000 weekly workflows as Ivy Studio cuts hours to minutes

    Nearly 70 percent of use sits in only 20 workflows, a narrow base for buyers weighing agent claims. OpenAI models now feed the Toronto platform's core stack.

  • ChatGPT ad budgets lose fixed daily caps 9 weeks after OpenAI set them 11 min read

    ChatGPT ad budgets lose fixed daily caps 9 weeks after OpenAI set them

    Seven-day averaging replaces per-day limits on live campaigns with no opt-out. Google caps single-day overspend at twice the daily figure. OpenAI names no cap.

  • Teads sues Google, citing 6.88 trillion impressions lost to rival exchanges 12 min read

    Teads sues Google, citing 6.88 trillion impressions lost to rival exchanges

    Complaint alleges 90% of Google Ads demand flows only through AdX, squeezing rival exchanges. Nasdaq-listed plaintiff wants treble damages and a jury trial.

  • Snap Map gains live Spotify listening data on 450M-user surface 9 min read

    Snap Map gains live Spotify listening data on 450M-user surface

    Four visibility settings gate who sees a linked account, and Canada is excluded at launch. Whether listening signals reach Promoted Places buyers is unstated.

  • Hughes files Chapter 11 as Starlink cuts its subscribers to 641,000 12 min read

    Hughes files Chapter 11 as Starlink cuts its subscribers to 641,000

    Satellite ISP owed $1.5bn on notes that matured August 1 with $61.2m cash left. Rural households and in-store network contracts now ride on an enterprise pivot.

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