#transparency

#transparency

It's a nervy time to be a frontline worker in a call center or back-office hub. Startups are advertising 'AI employees' and the likes of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are talking of AI ' productizing and unbundling ' the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector that executes the core functions of corporations around the globe. No doubt customer service, HR, and IT workers in the industry are wondering how their employers will respond-and whether their livelihoods are at risk.

Is programmatic really broken-or just in need of a reset? In this episode of Inside the Stack, Yieldmo founder and CEO Mike Yavonditte joins AdExchanger head of communities Lynne d Johnson to unpack the misalignments between DSPs, agencies, and buyers that fuel inefficiency across the chain. He makes the case for "radical control and radical transparency," giving advertisers page-level insight before they place a bid.

The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu. Every law enforcement agency in Contra Costa County including all police departments and the county's sheriff's office will end public access to their radio chatter on Oct. 7, said David Swing, head of the East Bay Regional Communications System Authority. Nearly every such agency in Alameda County plans to follow suit on Oct. 9, he said. The only holdout appears to be the Berkeley Police Department, which vowed last month to keep their conversations public.

The platform addresses gaps that often leave agents and buyers without key information such as whether offers exist, which deadlines apply or what it takes to secure a property. Consumers expect real-time transparency in every other part of their lives. Why should buying or selling a home be any different? said Chad Ochsner, broker/owner of RE/MAX Alliance. We're proud to bring this level of clarity and confidence to Colorado.

The register is designed to shine a light on which companies are being paid to represent foreign states in the UK. It launched on Wednesday with three companies having their names published in public with firms allowed to ask for opt-outs from the open register if it could prejudice commercial interests or present a risk to safety. Government sources said more registrations were still being assessed and there was a pipeline due to be published.

In her first "State of Our Schools" address Monday, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos gave an overview of how the Education Department is meeting families' needs and announced a new accountability tool that breaks down a variety of education initiatives, from the expansion of the NYC Reads curriculum mandate to chronic absenteeism rates per district. The tool is divided into family engagement, teacher support, and student well-being, tracking 37 topics ranging from staff hiring updates and expanding autism programs to increasing voter turnout for the local Community Education Council elections.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday that will create new transparency measures for large AI companies, including public disclosure of security protocols and reports of critical safety incidents. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said Senate Bill 53 will create "commonsense guardrails" to ensure groundbreaking innovations don't sacrifice safety and transparency amid the rapid growth of AI technologies.

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer. While the colossal project is impossible to miss in Richland Parish, a farming community of 20,000 residents, not everything is visible, including how much the social media giant will pay toward the more than $3 billion in new electricity infrastructure needed to power the facility.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said the officer was seriously injured by Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, who allegedly tried to evade arrest after agents pulled over his car in Franklin Park. Nearly three hours of video and audio clips obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request shed new light on the shooting that has escalated tensions amid a federal immigration crackdown in the country's third-largest city.

The Upper West Side has long been one of Manhattan's most iconic neighborhoods. From its cultural landmarks like Lincoln Center to its leafy brownstone blocks and proximity to Central Park, the Upper West Side blends creativity, intellect, and sophistication. It's also a neighborhood where wellness, authenticity, and quality matter deeply. That's why, as cannabis legalization grows across New York, Upper West Side consumers are seeking top shelf weed that reflects their values-potent, clean, and crafted with care.

For some people, there's value in having clear boundaries between work and family. But I believe that integrating my personal and professional lives was the best way to grow this business. Ultimately, I was doing this for my daughter and other kids, and I knew the best business would be born from melding my family and business.

"It's troubling to see the erosion of the committee's integrity," said Dr. Sandra Fryhofer, who spoke on behalf of the American Medical Association on Friday, "We're concerned about how vaccine recommendations are being developed by this new panel, data is being selectively used to justify specific conclusions."

Usually, you can find comparison tools a little hard to use, especially within the finance sector. Fortunately, there are some services out there that understand that not everyone is a seasoned professional. The Investors Centre is one such service, with an emphasis on helping people use online financial brokers with confidence and peace of mind. With over 15 years of service and 10,000+ monthly investors, it seems that TIC is doing something right with their online tools.

The "making of," in which process is made visible through behind-the-scenes chronicles-documentaries, YouTube tutorials and explainers of all sorts-is its own journalistic genre.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that companies should only have to report earnings twice a year-versus every quarter. " This will save money, and allow managers to focus on properly running their companies," he wrote. "Did you ever hear the statement that, 'China has a 50 to 100 year view on management of a company, whereas we run our companies on a quarterly basis???' Not good!!!"

The Department of Health and Social Sare (DHSC) was glowing in its description of the league tables by which all of England's 205 NHS trusts are now being judged: a landmark moment, a pioneering new system and a new era of transparency. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said that sunlight is the best disinfectant in his zeal to expose, and drive out, poor care.

House Oversight Democrats/XHouse Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) in a statement accompanying the release of Epstein documents that the convicted sex offender's estate turned over to the panel criticized Democrats for "cherry-picking documents and politicizing" the information.

Paul Patterson, the director of Fujitsu Services Ltd, emailed the government on January 24 last year [PDF] to clarify that until an inquiry into the scandal was complete, there was "no limitation or caveat on our intention to pause bidding for work with new Government customers." He said it would "only" continue bidding for public sector work if a new customer asked it to do so, or with existing customers "for example a contract extension or for similar work already undertaken by Fujitsu for that customer," or "for new opportunities with existing customers, where we have assessed and understood there to be a need [for] Fujitsu skills and capability."

The wannabe new owners of Thames Water say they are fully committed to a new transparent and collaborative relationship with regulators. Jolly good. Unfortunately, this embrace of transparency does not appear to extend to the poor old customers. At this late stage in the dance to decide Thames' future, you'd expect London & Valley Water the banner under which the consortium of creditors now sail to opt for straight-talking and openness.

Unlike the lump-sum AI training and content licensing deals favored by Amazon, Meta and OpenAI, it's building revenue share models that incentivize it to continue compensating publishers. But there are some major hurdles. In theory, the revenue share model around Perplexity's Comet Plus subscription tier announced this week sounds pretty good: publishers are paid based on how often their content is visited by humans and crawled by bots on its AI-powered browser Comet.

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case. The disclosure represents the latest Trump administration effort to repair self-inflicted political wounds after failing to deliver on expectations that its own officials had created through conspiracy theories and bold pronouncements that never came to pass.