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Vivaldi Technologies released version 7.8 on January 29 with drag-and-drop tab tiling and pinned tab restrictions, rejecting AI assistants while Chrome, Edge integrate AI features.
Interactive Advertising Bureau projects 9.5% US ad spend increase in 2026, with five of six top priorities driven by AI as advertisers embrace autonomous campaign management.
Major music publishers including Concord and Universal file massive copyright lawsuit against Anthropic claiming illegal downloads of 20,000 songs via BitTorrent from pirate sites.
Cloudflare data shows Googlebot accesses 3.2x more unique URLs than OpenAI and 4.8x more than Microsoft, as UK regulator considers crawler separation mandate.
Pinterest reduces workforce by 15% to fund AI development, but shares sink 9.61% as analysts question whether automation addresses competitive pressures from Meta and TikTok.
