Adam Driver Has Passed on So Many Marvel Roles That It’s Become a “Tradition,” Kevin Feige Says

Adam Driver Has Passed on So Many Marvel Roles That It’s Become a “Tradition,” Kevin Feige Says

It seems Kevin Feige has gotten used to Adam Driver telling him no. During a recent interview with Happy Sad Confused podcast host Josh Horowitz, the Marvel Studios president revealed that Driver has turned down joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe so many times that it has become a “tradition.” “It’s no secret we’d like to [work with Driver],”…

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Local Services Ads come to Google Ads via Performance Max

Local Services Ads come to Google Ads via Performance Max

Advertisers will gain a unified campaign management experience with automatic Google Business Profile syncing. Google is moving Local Services Ads (LSAs) into the Google Ads interface, replacing the standalone LSA dashboard with a new Performance Max for pay-per-lead goals campaign designed specifically for local service businesses. What’s happening. Beginning with a phased rollout in August…

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Judge signs off on Anthropic’s .5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she…

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BUSTED! Employee Behind META’s ‘Digital Experience For Kids’ Caught Attempting NSFW Contact With Child!

BUSTED! Employee Behind META’s ‘Digital Experience For Kids’ Caught Attempting NSFW Contact With Child!

[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A New York City engineer who worked for Meta has been placed on leave after an encounter with an online child-safety vigilante group that claims he attempted to communicate with a person he believed was a 13-year-old girl. According to a YouTube video from the group, followed by reporting by the…

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Bitcoin ETFs post five-day inflow streak, longest since May

Bitcoin ETFs post five-day inflow streak, longest since May

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $227 million in inflows as BTC climbed above $65,000, extending their longest winning streak since early May. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted their fifth consecutive day of net inflows, marking their longest winning streak in nearly three months. Bitcoin ETFs attracted $226.9 million in net inflows on Monday,…

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Adam Driver Has Passed on So Many Marvel Roles That It’s Become a “Tradition,” Kevin Feige Says

It seems Kevin Feige has gotten used to Adam Driver telling him no. During a recent interview with Happy Sad Confused podcast host Josh Horowitz, the Marvel Studios president revealed that Driver has turned down joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe so many times that it has become a “tradition.” “It’s no secret we’d like to [work with Driver],”…

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AI-driven personalized search: A practical guide

AI-driven personalized search: A practical guide

See how personalized AI search uses entities, context, and multimodal signals to influence discovery beyond traditional rankings. The same search no longer guarantees the same answer. In 2026, the biggest change in digital discovery isn’t simply that AI generates answers. It’s that those answers are personalized for individual users. Traditional search engines ranked webpages primarily…

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