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US Pushes G20 Nations Toward Light-Touch AI Rules at Summit Featuring Musk, Altman, and Huang
Washington gathered the biggest names in AI to push a hands-off regulatory framework, and the country that agreed to sign on is the one nobody expected. See who signed, and who's pushing back →
NYC Schools Ban AI for Nearly 600,000 Students Through Eighth Grade, the Most Restrictive Policy in the Country
New York just banned AI for hundreds of thousands of kids, and the district already reversed a similar ban once before for the exact opposite reason. See what changed the second time around →
How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
For its first CTV campaign, Jennifer Aniston’s DTC haircare brand LolaVie had a few non-negotiables. The campaign had to be simple. It had to demonstrate measurable impact. And it had to be full-funnel.
LolaVie used Roku Ads Manager to test and optimize creatives — reaching millions of potential customers at all stages of their purchase journeys. Roku Ads Manager helped the brand convey LolaVie’s playful voice while helping drive omnichannel sales across both ecommerce and retail touchpoints.
The campaign included an Action Ad overlay that let viewers shop directly from their TVs by clicking OK on their Roku remote. This guided them to the website to buy LolaVie products.
Discover how Roku Ads Manager helped LolaVie drive big sales and customer growth with self-serve TV ads.
The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
Google Adds Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode Just Three Weeks After the Last Update
Google just swapped the model powering AI Mode again, less than a month after the last swap, and the pace has real consequences for anyone trying to measure how their content actually performs in AI search. See why that update speed matters for your own visibility →
Wonderful Raises $550 Million, Valuation Doubles to $5 Billion in Under Six Months
A startup building software to coordinate AI agents across entire companies just doubled its valuation in half a year, and one of its newest investors also happens to sell a competing product. See why Salesforce backed it anyway →
OliverAI Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Build a Database Purpose-Built for AI Agents
A tiny startup just landed backing from two major investors betting that AI agents need an entirely new kind of database, one built for how machines actually query data, not how humans do. See the performance claims backing the bet →
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📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
Today's five stories all trace back to the same underlying fight: who gets to set the rules for AI, and how fast those rules can actually keep up. Washington wants light-touch regulation and got China's signature on it. New York City wants the opposite for kids and is willing to be the outlier to get there. Google is moving so fast on its own models that measuring AI search performance requires accounting for updates every few weeks. And two infrastructure startups just raised real money betting that agentic AI needs entirely new foundations, not just faster models bolted onto old systems. Nobody in today's edition agrees on the right pace or the right guardrails. What they all agree on is that the current moment won't hold still long enough for anyone to catch up completely, and every story here is someone trying anyway.
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