Organic SEO & Search News

Elon Musk pressures potential SpaceX investors to advertise on X – Musk told banks, law firms and other advisors they need to buy subscriptions to artificial intelligence chatbot Grok before the June initial public offering, per the New York Times.

Major social platforms issue joint warning about child safety in EU – Google, Meta, Microsoft and Snapchat said they would continue to take voluntary actions to protect their platforms following the expiration of the EU ePrivacy Directive.

TikTok and ACRCloud partner on Derivative Works Detection system – The enhanced protections will help musicians who use the app’s SoundOn service identify misused audio tracks and combat copyright violations.

Paid Search & Platform Innovations

Meta pauses all contracts with Mercor after breach – The data contracting firm works with all the major artificial intelligence providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, and was hit by hackers last week, per Wired.

Authorities need to establish clearer rules on social media age checking – There will be gaps in enforcement until there is a definitive solution to ensure that the same standards apply to all platforms.

General Digital Marketing

Anthropic’s $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol Avasare – Listen now | Anthropic’s Head of Growth on scaling from $1B to $19B ARR in 14 months through big bets, intentional onboarding friction, deep focus, and CASH—an internal AI system for autonomous growth experiments.