Author: Geek Planet

Amazon shouldn’t struggle to draw interest. Other players have sold out; NBC Universal has lined up 170 advertisers across its coverage, including Kia, Wingstop and American Express. Over 70% have bought across streaming and linear. This month, betting app FanDuel was unveiled as the first sponsor of Amazon’s Prime coverage. It’s no surprise that a sportsbook wants a front-row seat, but FanDuel’s partnership goes beyond the usual sponsor’s playbook to alter how viewers experience the coverage itself. Digiday caught up with the betting firm’s president of sports Mike Raffensperger to discuss why the company’s pushed the boat out for its…

We recently learned that Google was prepping a new feature that would allow users to ask Gemini questions about their NotebookLM notebooks. Although Google still hasn’t made anything official, this feature now appears to be rolling out to users. According to recent X posts from Sai Nemani and TestingCatalog, the attachment menu in Gemini on the web now includes a NotebookLM button. This option lets users attach a notebook and ask Gemini questions about the attached notebook to get more relevant responses. TestingCatalog reports that the feature lets users attach multiple notebooks as sources. In addition, the NotebookLM integration works…

In recent years, online AI systems including chatbots have been publishing outright lies about people. That activity is usually called libel if the defamatory harmful lies appear in writing. By contrast, it is called slander when the lies are spoken aloud. If a chatbot answers a question with a defamatory statement about you, can you sue the chatbot’s creator and owner for libel?  Consider Robby Starbuck’s situation, which underlies his recently-filed lawsuit. Starbuck, a social media influencer and former music and documentary film maker, is suing Google in a Delaware state court, contending: For nearly two years, one of the…

Brand safety was never just about steering clear of violence, nudity or hate speech. It was always about brand suitability — and that threshold isn’t fixed. It’s only gotten worse as phrases like diversity, equity and inclusion have taken new meaning under President Donald Trump’s administration.Marketers have conceded that the news cycle is moving quickly, changing their standards for what makes an emotionally charged moment, and what could sway the suitability of an ad spend. In response, three buyers say the precarious time has led them to the channels the industry has long held in the crosshairs of brand suitability:…

ASUS has quietly added two new models to its GeForce RTX 5060 lineup that look almost identical to existing cards at first glance but come with several hardware tweaks. Without any formal announcement, ASUS has listed the Dual GeForce RTX 5060 EVO and Dual GeForce RTX 5060 Ti EVO on its website. These cards sit alongside the standard RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, offering the same core performance while reworking the physical design and internal layout. The most noticeable change is size. Both EVO cards use a slimmer 2.1 slot design instead of the 2.5 slot layout used by earlier…

After OnePlus officially refuted claims about the “dismantling” of the company, we’ve come across a fresh rumor about the company’s upcoming compact flagship — the OnePlus 15T — about its camera setup. According to the Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (via Weibo), a “small-screen phone powered by the Snapdragon 8E5 is ready,” translated from simplified Chinese. This phone, believed to be the OnePlus 15T, could feature a dual-camera setup “with a 50MP main sensor and a 50MP telephoto lens.” Battery gains might overshadow a a similar camera setup We already know that the OnePlus 13T (or the OnePlus 13S in…

A courthouse in Virginia was meant to be the stage for a long-awaited antitrust reckoning. Instead, by most accounts, it occasionally played out like Succession: ad tech edition. Digiday wasn’t in the room but those who were described the remedies phase part legal showdown, part industry confessional. Hat tip to The Monopoly Report and the Check My Ads teams for their close coverage.Here’s a rundown of the gossipy sub plots and quiet power plays that emerged from the courtroom. The spaghetti defense: Google’s security vp Heather Adkins described its systems as a “bowl of spaghetti,” bringing up quantum encryption and…

Google has published a blunt assessment of how reliable today’s AI chatbots really are, and the numbers are not flattering. Using its newly introduced FACTS Benchmark Suite, the company found that even the best AI models struggle to break past a 70% factual accuracy rate. The top performer, Gemini 3 Pro, reached 69% overall accuracy, while other leading systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI scored even lower. The takeaway is simple and uncomfortable. These chatbots still get roughly one out of every three answers wrong, even when they sound confident doing it. The benchmark matters because most existing AI tests…

Yes, this is another Sora story. But this one’s less about the tech and more about what it’s doing to the people behind it — creators or as they’re being branded, “vibe creators.” It sounds like a joke, but give it time, it might actually stick. Every day since OpenAI’s video-generation launched last week has made that a little clearer — a glimpse into the next low-effort, high-yield frontier of online expression.To understand why that matters to creators, it helps to understand Sora itself.  OpenAI has effectively built a social network where users can create digitized versions of their faces…

AI is having a transformative impact on content and advertising, and the audio space is no different. But the medium uniquely prides itself on its intimate relationship with its listeners, and the personal connection between host and audience. As AI tools are increasingly used to translate and edit podcast content — as well as streamline and improve audience targeting in audio — podcasters are grappling with striking a balance between protecting the nature of podcasts and evolving the space for the AI era. “Advertisers are looking for outcomes, and [if] using AI helps me get a sale faster, helps me inform a…