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Advertisers are testing ChatGPT ads, but the channel is new enough that they have only limited controls over adjacent content. Adweek reports roughly 14% of ads served inside ChatGPT have no relevance to the user’s query.
Sep 5Restaurants are turning to generative AI for menu images, but the illustrations share an oddly smooth, symmetrical look. Reality Defender’s CTO says the models drew on a narrow “pleasing” corpus, so results resemble a Chili’s menu from 2015.
Sep 4Meta’s new Muse Spark model offers a “contributor” pricing tier that cuts costs by about 95% for users who let it train on their prompts and outputs.
Sep 3Rouge Care spent $25,000 on CTV ads bought via PubMatic’s AgenticOS, an AI system handling audience discovery, and drove over $125,000 in attributable sales during a Q2 2026 campaign built with Klever Programmatic.
Sep 3Perplexity is rolling out AI agents that connect to small-business tools like QuickBooks and Mailchimp, letting owners automate tasks such as bookkeeping and email campaigns through its assistant.
Sep 3Pangram co-founder Max Spero joined TechCrunch’s Equity podcast to discuss AI content detection, weeks after the startup raised $9 million and struck a partnership with Substack to flag newsletters written with AI.
Sep 3Google closed its longest monthly losing streak in over a decade, then opened September by launching Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks.
Sep 3Nvidia has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, absorbing a platform hosting three million models, one million apps, and half a million datasets used by over 18 million developers.
Sep 3Google inked a multi-year partnership with Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson to feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos.
Sep 2The Trump administration filed a 20-page brief defending OpenAI’s unlicensed training on copyrighted material in the New York Times’ lawsuit, citing the need to retain U.S. global leadership in artificial intelligence.
Sep 2Pangram co-founder Max Spero says AI text and images now flood job applications, reviews, and insurance claims, not just social feeds.
Sep 2Amazon is rolling out an AI feature in Alexa for Shopping that checks whether a suspicious email, text, or other message actually came from the company.
Sep 2Google is pitching Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Universal on licensing deals to train AI models on copyrighted characters, reportedly offering around $40 million per character with potential ad-revenue sharing on outputs.
Sep 2Google is rolling out Pics, an AI image-creation and editing tool built on its Nano Banana model, to Workspace and Google AI Pro or Ultra subscribers starting with Docs and Slides.
Sep 2Amazon launched “Update Me When,” an Alexa for Shopping feature that sends personalized alerts on new product lines, show seasons, concert tours or book releases tied to a shopper’s interests.
Sep 1OpenAI’s advertising business has reportedly reached a $1 billion annualized run rate, according to reports cited by EMARKETER.
Sep 1OpenAI said its ChatGPT Ads business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, and expanded Ads Manager to India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Sep 1OpenAI said ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch.
Sep 1OpenAI’s ad business is now annualizing at $1 billion in revenue less than 200 days after launch.
Sep 1ChatGPT is now on pace to generate more than $1 billion in advertising revenue over the next 12 months, OpenAI said, extrapolating current revenue forward.
Sep 1Instagram is renaming its “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” and will reduce reach for creators who fail to disclose AI-generated people on their profiles.
Sep 1Sony Pictures Television unveiled “Live TV on PS5,” over 100 free ad-supported channels reachable through the console, launching first in the U.S. with Canada and Bravia TVs to follow. Publica and PubMatic will handle the connected-TV ad sales.
Sep 1OpenAI is rolling out a new campaign onboarding flow that lets advertisers input a website URL and get an AI-generated ad, targeting suggestions, and bidding setup in under a minute.
Aug 31OpenAI said its advertising business, roughly 200 days old, has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.
Aug 31Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a multi-billion-dollar suit against Anthropic, calling its use of their catalogs “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
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