The EC further pushes to rein-in Google’s ad tech monopoly
The European Commission published provisional findings on Google’s ad tech stack, ruling that its wares (primarily AdX and DoubleClick for Publishers) have been dominant for more than a decade, furt...
Mythbuster: What AI is not about to do in advertising
As the hype around AI thins into something closer to reality, the ad industry is quietly drawing a line between what the tech can do and what it will not be trusted to touch.
Here are the myths, an...
Casting is dead. Long live casting!
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Last month, Netflix made the...
Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work: Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to...
A Pocket of Enterprise Software Investors Still Love
What do you get when you offset investors’ recent loathing of software startups with their lust for defense tech? Fast-growing Onebrief, the latest startup to double its valuation in a short span af...
Global AI Boom Squeezes Consumer Tech Memory Supply
The expansion of generative artificial intelligence is exerting pressure beyond data centers and cloud providers.
It is beginning to alter the economics of consumer electronics in visible a...
