Gen Z loses money to job scams at 5 times the boomer rate, LinkedIn finds
Nine in ten reported scam messages push job seekers off LinkedIn, and over half land in the very first message. Does platform verification arrive early enough?
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KPMG finds 49% cut AI agent rollouts when costs outran value
Established ROI sits at 7% while planned AI spending holds at $188m across the 2,145 leaders surveyed. Cost visibility now separates the firms seeing returns.
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Chavez says enterprise data cannot be removed from an LLM once trained
Two decades after publishers handed inventory to Google, a super{set} co-founder says the same bargain now faces firms. Can a company audit what a model kept?
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PropellerAds says NIKO campaigns gain 2-4x revenue over manual setup
Internal tests also place first campaign drafts 11 times faster across push, popunder and Telegram formats. No independent verification has been published.
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Shopify GA4 tracking gains 4 events August 17 - only purchase is server-side
Merchants get view_item_list, remove_from_cart, view_cart and add_shipping_info three years after GA4 migration. Do ad blockers still break the session thread?
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Peacock ad revenue per subscriber rises 43% to $4.98 a month
Advertising reached 37.8% of the service's $1,895M revenue line and costs climbed 28% to $1,706M. Media earnings outside Peacock fell 34%. Can it hold in Q3?
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PatronView blocks Amazon's AI crawler after 117,000 daily page reads
Anthropic's crawler hit a 35,000 to 1 crawl ratio, and CAPTCHA solve rates measured just 0.24%. The findings show why small operators are locking down servers.
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Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak
Monthly peak hit 207,204 in March 2014. The whole of 2025 produced 108,981 questions, under one peak month. What now happens to the corpus that trained AI?
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Google faces bipartisan brief urging tougher remedy over 21% AI model share
Filed August 4 in the D.C. Circuit, a 34-page brief says three firms hold 88% of AI model API revenue. At stake is whether Mehta's remedy survives the appeal.
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What did the first week of August change in digital advertising?
A $2.15 billion acquisition, a brutal earnings split, fresh lawsuits and forced automation reshaped digital advertising between August 3 and August 8, 2026.
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Amazon.de gains PayPal installments up to €10,000 at 11.49% APR
Terms run 3 to 48 months, with 36 and 48 exclusive to Amazon buyers, and more than 40 million PayPal accounts qualify. Does checkout data follow the credit?
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IAS blocks 800 Papyrus domains faking $1 million a month in ad traffic
Novel-reading apps hid browser windows that clicked and scrolled on their own, lifting eCPM roughly 4x and attention scores 13%. Optimization data now suspect.
