📰 From the Digest

Marketers are realizing AI decides whether a brand is mentioned at all, not where it ranks, and a measurement industry is forming around that.

The advertising AI boom favors Google, Meta and Amazon even as marketers say they are uneasy about it.

EA is betting that giving brands multiple franchises in one buy wins bigger advertising budgets.

Former Aftonbladet AI lead Martin Schori argues publishers are heading toward either AI-powered information services or deeply human products, and most are stuck trying to do both.

Bari Weiss's revamped 60 Minutes premiere posted its worst debut ratings of the 21st century, which one TV executive called a death spiral.

Dylan Byers assesses the early reviews and finds the new 60 Minutes looked largely indistinguishable from the show it replaced.

The three streamers formed the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance, run by the trade group TechNet, amid government scrutiny of sports rights.

A former general manager reads both sides' submitted proposals and finds elements in each that would improve the game.

Two low-payroll clubs clinched first, giving the players' union an argument that a hard salary cap is not needed for competitive balance.

Eriq Gardner reports a federal criminal inquiry arising from the Aspiration affair changed Steve Ballmer's calculus about fighting the NBA.

Ballmer accepted a $30 million fine, a one-year suspension and the loss of five first-round picks rather than contest the league's findings.

Jacob Fortinsky addressed criticism from professional female athletes and disclosed $1 billion traded on Novig since its August launch.

The WNBA players' union called it deeply disappointing that the NBA left the group off a joint letter to state betting regulators.

The Gotham FC governor defended both the NWSL's star exception and league-wide salary caps at the Asset Class event in New York.

A career-earnings provision can win a spot in the tour's top-tier series, but LIV players still have no route back.