Time Tries Monetizing Bot Traffic; The FTC Sues Hims & Hers For Sensitive Data Sharing

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Serves You Right The ad industry has found a new audience to bombard with ads: AI bots. Time recently began serving ads to bots in an attempt to monetize its growing bot traffic. The ads are formatted as FAQ-style brand content and labeled as sponsored. Influencing agents may eventually become even more important than influencing […]

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Amazon Crushes Earnings And Reaches Almost $20 Billion In Q2 Ad Revenue

Amazon’s advertising businesses earned a total $19.8 billion in Q2, the company reported in its quarterly earnings on Thursday. That’s up from $15.7 billion in Q2 2025, and good for a 26% year over year growth rate. And while those revenue numbers would be reason to celebrate for any other advertising business, they barely registered […]

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Reddit Had A Great Q2, But Investors Have AI Search Jitters

Guess there’s no pleasing investors. Despite Reddit delivering an objectively solid Q2, with overall revenue up 61% year over year to $805 million and advertising revenue up 64% YOY to $762 million, the company’s stock cratered on Thursday, sliding nearly 13% in after-hours trading. Why? Because AI. Specifically, Wall Street is fixated on how AI […]

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Jeff Mattson Will Play Jerry Garcia’s Alligator Guitar on Saturday at DSO Rex Foundation Benefit

Dark Star Orchestra will appear at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA, for a special two-night run. The Music Never Stops: A Rex Foundation Benefit & Tribute to Bob Weir will feature some specials guests in support of the organization.

Tonight, Friday, July 31, Melvin Seals and JGB ft. Jazz Mafia Horns will deliver a performance prior to the two-set Dark Star Orchestra show. On Saturday, Peter Rowan & Sam Grisman Project will open the evening and present music from Old & In The Way.

Although DSO does not typically announce in advance the show that they’ll interpret, they have confirmed that on Saturday it will be the 8/1/73 Roosevelt Stadium show, which took place on Jerry Garcia’s 31st birthday at Jersey City, NJ. That gig also represented the final time that Garcia performed with his Alligator guitar before he retired it. To mark this special occasion, DSO guitarist will play Alligator on Saturday night via a loan from Grateful Guitars Foundation founder Andy Logan.

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