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FTC accuses Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme’ in new lawsuit

Amazon is facing a new lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states, which accuse the company of secretly charging businesses more for advertising on its platform.

The lawsuit, filed Monday, claims Amazon spent more than seven years quietly increasing the prices advertisers paid through its online ad auctions. According to the complaint, the alleged practice affected more than one million brands and sellers and may have generated tens of billions of dollars in additional revenue for Amazon.

The 22 states joining the FTC are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington.

The lawsuit centers on Amazon’s Sponsored Products ads, Sponsored Brands ads, and Display ads that run alongside its search results. According to the FTC, Amazon told more than 500,000 small and medium-sized businesses that it...

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I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro

This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn’t make that much sense. Apple and Major League Baseball chose a classic match-up of the Boston Red

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The US military gets its own ChatGPT today

A U.S. Air Force captain from the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office delivers training on building AI agents to sailors at U.S. Pacific Fleet on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on July 21, 2026. U.S Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Christopher Sypert

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I didn’t think iFi could improve on the Gryphon portable DAC/amp — then I tested the new iDSD GR 2

The iFi iDSD GR 2 is the ultimate solution for on-the-go audiophiles, boasting impressive power, exceptional performance, and a brilliant OLED touchscreen display. Its K2HD restorative tech, great XBass and XSpace filters, and impressive build quality only help it to improve on the already impressive xDSD Gryphon, and it even

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The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs”

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &

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I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro

The US military gets its own ChatGPT today

I didn’t think iFi could improve on the Gryphon portable DAC/amp — then I tested the new iDSD GR 2

The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs”