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Alphabet Is Investing In Early-Stage AI Startups; Addressable TV Budgets Are Growing

Alphabet announces Gradient Ventures, a Google-backed fund to back 10–15 early-stage AI startups this year, taking minority stakes and investing roughly $1–$8 million per company; portfolio includes Algorithmia and Cogniac. Separately, US addressable TV ad spend is forecast to grow to $1.26 billion in 2017 (65.8% growth, about 1.7% of TV revenue), with addressable TV projected to reach 4% of TV spend by 2019 and programmatic TV at $1.1 billion (about 1.6%). Amazon may give Alexa developers access to transcripts to aid app development, signaling competitive pressure from Google Home. In net neutrality news, Facebook, Netflix, Reddit, and Google joined an online protest; AT&T and Comcast supported net neutrality; FCC Chair Ajit Pai seeks to roll back the rules. In hardware deals, Vizio is suing LeEco after LeEco abandoned its $2B acquisition, with Vizio alleging LeEco failed to pay the remaining $60M of a $100M termination fee, having paid $40M.

Amazon’s Twitch Buy Is An Investment In Infrastructure; TV Buyers And Programmatic Video

AdExchanger’s daily roundup surveys moves shaping the ad tech and media infrastructure landscape. It frames Amazon’s Twitch acquisition as an infrastructure play enabling video bandwidth and large events, built on at least 15 data centers. The piece covers programmatic video with eMarketer predicting TV buyers will influence next‑gen cross‑platform exchanges. August 2014 ad tech M&A activity is highlighted: aggregate deal value across tech, media, commerce and communications rose 220% year over year, with Analytics & Targeting and Mobile Technology each posting eight transactions totaling $87 million, and CRM totaling seven deals worth about $198 million. Additional items note The Weather Company’s leadership shift under Vikram Somaya to expand WeatherFX triggers, and Algorithmia’s model to match academia-developed algorithms with businesses, as reported by MIT Technology Review. The roundup also references leadership moves such as Ben Regensburger joining the IAB UK Mobile Board and other industry updates.