The new AI platform, founded by Crypto.com CEO and co-founder Kris Marszalek, reportedly spent a whopping $85 million on the Super Bowl spot, only to garner so much traffic that he had to post on X: "Insane traffic levels. We prepared for scale, but not for THIS," followed by three fire emojis.
Blasto, a global programmatic advertising ecosystem, has reported its 2025 operational results, outlining platform developments across demand-side tooling, verification infrastructure, and service innovations, as well as the launch of a new DSP offering designed for small and mid-sized agencies. According to the company, 2025 marked a deliberate shift from surface-area expansion to workflow clarity, controllability, and measurable supply quality, reflecting buyer demand for tighter SPO outcomes, reduced auction noise, and consistent policy enforcement across mobile app and CTV environments.
The Minnesota Star Tribune is the state's biggest newspaper, and has been doing an excellent job of covering every angle of "Operation Metro Surge" - the federal government's mass deportation effort that started in December. But it is also competing in a real-time news environment where everyone is a reporter, and cellphone videos and social media posts are widely distributed.
On his second day in office, Jan. 21, Trump said the U.S. had "already secured nearly $3 trillion of new investments." By May 8, that figure rose to "close to $10 trillion." It eventually peaked Oct. 29 during a meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok: "I think by the end of my first term, we should have $21 or $22 trillion dollars invested in the United States from other people and countries," Trump said.
The billionaire unleashed a barrage of posts on X, boosting claims that cast Brussels as censorious, corrupt, and anti-democratic - just days after the bloc fined his platform €120 million ($140 million) over the "deceptive design" of its blue checkmarks. In one post, Musk asked followers: "How long before the EU is gone?" AbolishTheEU. In another instance, he backed a call for binding referendums on whether countries should remain in the bloc, describing it as a "good idea."
The news landscape of 2025 is a battlefield of fact versus fiction. As generative AI floods social feeds with increasingly plausible but fake content, the need for credible, verified information has never been more urgent.