Sixteen terms, four groups of four. A gentle start to the week across search, privacy and platform history, with two tiles that look at home in two places.

Turkey will require state-issued age tokens and bar under-15s from social media from November 1, as Apple, Anthropic and an AI sandbox face questions of proof.

Surveyed US firms average 183 AI tools, yet only 15% of AI investment works as one system. What happens to brands when CEOs, CTOs and CMOs each claim the fix?

Indonesian publishers heard Traffic Cop runs 100-plus checks per visitor but skips mobile apps. How far does a vendor's claimed access to Google's team go?

Effective the day it was posted, October 7, the ban hits CFTC-certified exchanges and brokers. Why the main policy page still left the state off days later.

CNJSA-authorized lotteries become the 8th product Colombian operators can certify, and a Google application is still required. Does the Coljuegos rule apply?

Santosh Janardhan cites 6.5GW of nuclear power contracted through 2035 in a video Meta paid for. How do his figures compare with Meta's own public disclosures?

Government puts savings at £40 a year per car-owning household, and Waze carries the same feed. Where does that leave the UK's fuel price comparison websites?

Fuel Finder is the UK's statutory open data scheme requiring forecourts to report pump price changes within 30 minutes, feeding Google Maps, Waze and apps.

Open data is information anyone can access, use, modify and share for any purpose, published under an open licence in machine-readable form free of charge.

The local pack is the map and three business listings Google shows for searches with local intent. How it is assembled, ranked and sold, and why it is disputed.

Inference is the stage where a trained AI model is run to produce an output. How it works, why it now drives AI spending, and where it sits inside ad auctions.

A power purchase agreement is a long-term contract to buy a generator's electricity at a fixed price, now the main way big tech funds power for AI data centres.

Vertical integration is one company owning successive stages of a supply chain. In ad tech, it means one firm runs the buy side, the exchange and the sell side.

MTIA is Meta's in-house AI chip family, built to run the ranking and recommendation models behind its ads and feeds. How it works, its roadmap, its limits.

Inventory modes are Google's three brand suitability tiers, Maximum, Moderate and Limited, setting how much sensitive YouTube and display content ads can reach.

Content themes are Google's topic-level exclusions, letting advertisers keep ads off news, politics, religion, health and gaming content on YouTube and DV360.

Stolen scans traced to a compromised ID verification service hit US and Canada. California has issued the barcode since late 2025. Can revocation stop fakes?

Non-US races were the lone outlier, with markets overrating right-leaning candidates by 1.42 points. What the data shows as Google keeps prediction ads open.

Chats are encrypted on-device with the key in the URL fragment, out of server reach. Can noindex tags and expiry avoid the leaks seen at ChatGPT and Claude?

Restaurant loyalty members order 1.8 times as often, DoorDash says, as DashOS merges delivery and dine-in profiles. What data stays blinded and who pays for it?