UK regulators halt Google's cookie apocalypse, putting advertising's future on ice

Plus, OpenAI revenue approaches $2 billion, the nervous 33-year-old doing AI's big publisher deals, subscriptions soar for a few, and more

Welcome to a new week and Scotch and Watch Monday. I love scotch and take just one block of ice with it. Ice is a theme today.

But before we get to that, a warm welcome to new subscribers from Australia’s AAP, America’s NPR, Yahoo and Texas Tribune, Germany’s Deutsche Welle, 24Sata in Croatia, Norway’s largest news publisher Amedia, Canada’s Media CMI, a…