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Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/everything-is-coming-down-chatgpt-ads-are-gett…

‘Everything is coming down’: ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper
While the pilot CPM started out at $60, advertisers are now seeing that price drop to as low as $25, just nine weeks into the test.

Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/everything-is-coming-down-chatgpt-ads-are-gett…

‘Everything is coming down’: ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper
While the pilot CPM started out at $60, advertisers are now seeing that price drop to as low as $25, just nine weeks into the test.

Are you planning flying in the coming months? Consider train...
"The executive director of the International Energy Agency, said there would be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies from the Middle East were not restored within the coming weeks.
KLM, part of the Air France-KLM group, said on Thursday it would cut 160 flights in the coming month because of high kerosene jet fuel prices."

A rare daylight #fireball coming with a loud bang was seen and heard Tuesday morning over the U.S. and Ohio in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBjApk3d6w - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ for links to many more reports. And https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/windfall-oh says: "Signatures of falling meteorites are seen in data from three weather radars [...] NASA Meteoroid Environment Office finds that this was a 2m diameter object weighing around 6 metric tons - more of a small asteroid than a large meteoroid. [...] There are meteorites on the ground around Windfall, OH towards River Styx, OH."

She was murdered by a driver coming out of the car wash right next to my old house; for years I've been predicting exactly this would happen. The car brained drivers filling up to get on the freeway do not care one ounce about pedestrians here. https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/danni

Dannielle Spillman was a grandma and a rockstar
Dannielle Spillman died on Monday afternoon in a hit-an-run incident near SoMa. Her friends remember her as kind, loving and generous woman.

Am I the only one who finds the sombre, weighty talk of sportscasters talking about a sacked coach or a bemoaning a popular team failing to 'fire on all cylinders' weirdly incongruous coming immediately on the heels of similarly sombre media discussing current events where thousands are dying and world war three is emerging (i.e. actual, real stakes).

Sources: Ted Sarandos met with several heads of exhibition at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and discussed the possibility of putting more Netflix films into theaters (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/netflix-theaters-ted-sara…

Netflix's Ted Sarandos Meets Theater Owners at CinemaCon as Streamer Considers Bigger Theatrical Presence | Exclusive
Ted Sarandos might be changing his tune when it comes to theatrical exhibition, as he met with theater owners at CinemaCon.

Seahawks' Julian Love sets record straight on how much they knew was coming from Patriots offense in Super Bowl LX https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-julian-love-sets-record-straight-on-how-much-they-knew…

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html

AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Bastian Schiller from Heidelberg University's Institute of Psychology. Participants felt a sense of closeness especially when they did not know that they were communicatin…

Filing: Paramount president Jeff Shell says the allegation that he leaked corporate info is an "utterly false tale" created by a "fixer" who sued him for $150M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/param

Paramount's Jeff Shell Fires Back: Exec Says Allegation He Leaked Private Corporate Info Is 'Utterly False Tale' Created in a 'Shakedown' Attempt
Jeff Shell, the president of Paramount Skydance, is accusing a "fixer" who has demanded $150 million from Shell for crisis communications of trying to extort and defame him, by creating "an utterly false tale that Shell had disclosed confidential details about Paramount’s business."