Sara Fischer

TikTok has rejected ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with U.S.

Vox Media has agreed to sell its podcast business and some publishing assets to James Murdoch's investment firm Lupa Systems. The publishing giant has been eyeing opportunities for months to sell its business in pieces, with the hope of reaping greater shareholder value than trying to sell it as a whole. Lupa has agreed to acquire New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and the news site Vox from the digital media group Vox Media. Those properties will operate as a subsidiary of Lupa Systems called Vox Media.

Microsoft is building universal protocols and tools that will make the agentic web reliable and transactable across all AI platforms. It's in active conversations with other AI companies to participate, says corporate vice president for AI monetization Tim Frank. The company believes its 51-year history, focused mostly on enterprise solutions, established the trust and scale necessary to build the foundational layers of the agentic web. "We do not have conflicting interests about operating as a platform," Frank said.

State attorneys general are moving aggressively to sue corporate giants in an attempt to fill a void they argue is being left by federal antitrust regulators. More than two dozen Republican and Democratic state attorneys general on Monday filed a motion for a mistrial in the federal antitrust lawsuit that sought to break up Live Nation/Ticketmaster. They are looking to continue their lawsuit after the Justice Department said it settled the case for $280 million.

Traffic to top websites has fallen by more than 11 percent in the past five years, according to data from Similarweb—a clear sign of the challenges traditional publishers face in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era<

The gutting of federal funding for public broadcasters is expected to cause hundreds of local station groups to significantly scale back or shutter across the country, of

Government agencies in the Trump 2.0 era are going far beyond their traditional tech and media policy arenas to tackle issues around race, gender, alleged political bias, and collusion. President Trump's push to expand executive branch power is testing the independence of regulatory agencies.

Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company, accusing it of copyri

The Association of State Democratic Committees, the group responsible for overseeing Democratic Party state efforts, is strongly encouraging all its state campaigns to use a single digital ad tech platform from a company called TargetSmart. The move aims to help Democrats streamline their ad buys and save money, but some critics say the one-vendor mandate is anticompetitive and limits innovation. TargetSmart has been one of the leading voter data sources for Democratic political parties and progressive organizations since it launched in 2006.

MAGA media is seizing on its new influence in Washington—staffing up, enjoying unprecedented access to power, and making market splashes. Corporate America has typically s