MadTech Daily: Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement; WhatsApp Backs Apple in Data Battle Against UK

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Google’s soaring carbon emissions, Canada dropping a tech tax amid Trump trade talks, and Facebook requesting Meta AI access to unshared camera roll photos.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Google launching Offerwall to boost publisher revenue, IAB launching a framework to standardise gaming ad metrics, Apple changing EU App Store terms with a new fee structure, and Apple and Google being told to drop the DeepSeek app by a German watchdog. We also discuss Meta facing potential daily fines over pay-or-consent model. 

In this MadTech Podcast episode, ExchangeWire head of marketing Grainne Reid is joined by head of content John Still and Uma Ranganathan, head of solutions development at dentsu APAC.  They discuss the tech trial carried out in Australia as the country moves towards fully implementing a ban on social media platforms for under 16s, the UK's advertising watchdog criticising ageism in ads, and the trading truce between China and the US. 

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss a US Judge siding with Meta in an AI copyright lawsuit, authors suing Microsoft over AI training on books, and subscriptions surpassing display ads for UK digital publishers. 

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss a US federal court backing Anthropic on an AI training copyright lawsuit, Japan’s FTC penalising Dentsu and others over Olympic bids, as well as  IPA’s TouchPoints data revealing mobile topping TV in UK consumers’ screen habits.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover the CMA’s proposed search overhaul to curb Google’s dominance, the FTC’s intervention in the Omnicom-IPG merger, and the eSafety commissioner’s call to include YouTube in Australia’s under-16s social media ban. We also discuss the UK’s launch of a £380m plan to power creative industry growth.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Google’s search overhaul offer to dodge an EU DMA fine and Google backing out of its deal with Aussie publishers. Apple also mulls an acquisition of Perplexity AI,  while being sued by shareholders over AI disclosures. Additionally, we discuss Snapchat acquiring student app Saturn.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss the BBC threatening legal action against Perplexity AI over content scraping, Australia’s social media ban tech trial, and the ASA slamming stereotyping of older people in ads.

In this episode of the MadTech Podcast, ExchangeWire editor Aimee Newell Tarín is joined by head of content John Still and Raj Parekh, head, digital sales at Mediacorp.  They discuss how AI search is reshaping the industry, looking particularly at how it's affecting publishers; in the same vein, they look at Perplexity AI's programme for publishers. They also examine UK broadcasters' battle against the streaming giants. 

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Google being hit in a €4.1bn Android fine battle, Microsoft considering abandoning high-stakes negotiations with OpenAI, OpenAI ending work with Scale AI after its Meta deal, as well as Omnicom closing Cannes Lions with a YouTube livestream deal.