Average hourly pay nears $24 for US core operations staff, who also get a 10% grocery discount from October 1. When does the banking perk arrive, and for whom?

Judge George Wu's 16-page tentative ruling keeps TikTok US under reporting duties through 2029. A Monday hearing will test the last quarter of a $400m deal.

Frankfurt ruled Meta's ad auction ends its hosting defence at 250,000 euros per breach, LinkedIn faces antitrust class action, and streamers built a D.C. lobby.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Four working vocabularies that rarely meet, and one group that looks settled until the fourth tile refuses.

Programmers lose a DMCA theory worth up to $25,000 per violation as judges find AI code tools make new works. What survives for publishers suing over training?

Microsoft staff called AI training an astonishing theft while OpenAI trained on 3.9 million Times copies. Can fair use survive the September 17, 2026 record?

Onsite auditors inside the largest AI labs and a May 2027 rulebook for verifiers are on the table. Can an order with no legal force change what labs build?

Buyers in the US, UK and Canada upload one-column CSVs of up to 100,000 sites or app IDs, with no spend data. What do vendor-built AU benchmarks leave out?

Few-shot prompting places a handful of worked examples inside the input to a language model so it infers a task without retraining. Mechanics, limits, disputes.

Pseudonymisation swaps identifiers for substitute values reversible only with separately held data. How it works in ad tech and why it remains personal data.

Hallucination is AI output that sounds confident but is false or unsupported by any source. How models produce it, how it is measured and where liability lands.

Sponsored Products: cost-per-click ads that promote a single catalogue item inside retail search results. How the auction, bids, placements and disputes work.

A reference price is the benchmark a shopper uses to judge an offer, usually the struck-through "was" figure displayed beside a discount in ads and listings.

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the service that stores, packs and ships marketplace sellers' goods and makes them Prime eligible. Fees, rules and disputes.

Attention metrics estimate whether a person actually looked at or heard an ad, and for how long, rather than whether the ad merely had the chance to be seen.

An inclusion list is a buyer-set roster of domains, apps or channels a campaign may bid on, with everything else ruled out. Mechanics, history and disputes.

App bundle ID: the app store identifier that names the application where an ad runs, carried in OpenRTB bid requests for targeting, exclusion and fraud checks.

Made-for-advertising sites buy cheap traffic and resell it as programmatic impressions, using dense ad layouts, auto-refresh, slideshows and templated content.

Indictable offences in Bill C-36 carry caps of at least C$25 million for ad tech firms holding Canadian data, above the civil tier. What conduct triggers them?

Video was 10.5% of 2.33 million assets from 300+ advertisers, static 89.5%. Why did travel and telecom campaigns click at up to 2.5 times the platform average?

Most traffic screening runs after an ad serves, letting bots reach lead forms. Google wants server-side email validation. Does a billing credit cover the rest?