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OpenAI plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, proposing a November 12 shutoff date. Anthropic said it would boost compute to support Claude models in Cursor instead.
Aug 30Ashleighjamz’s viral Instagram series about a lunchbox Oreo feud racked up over 10 million views before its #sunopartner tag surfaced.
Aug 30LTK launched an AI tool this week to structure campaigns and recommend creators, joining holdcos and platforms automating discovery, pricing and measurement across influencer marketing. Agency executives are split on whether standardizing creators as inventory helps or backfires.
Aug 30The Trade Desk’s Zuma release adds UX fixes, faster lift studies and a Koa AI assistant to Kokai, plus the option to route agents through outside tools like Claude rather than forcing everything into its own interface.
Aug 30Nvidia is reportedly closing in on a $13 billion deal for Hugging Face after a $6 billion Poolside acquisition, and Stripe just paid over $7 billion for OpenRouter.
Aug 30The Trade Desk has launched Kokai Zuma, an “evolution” of its Kokai platform featuring a redesigned interface, an upgraded forecasting engine, and a conversational AI assistant called Koa.
Aug 29Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston says SEO is “not the answer anymore” as publishers must learn where they surface in LLM answers.
Aug 28Google is expanding AI Mode with tools to track flight prices across more than 300 airlines and travel sites, and to book hotels directly through conversation.
Aug 27Tubular Labs data shows sports made up just 6% of U.S. YouTube views in 2026, even with the World Cup and Winter Olympics airing, and nearly two-thirds of those sports videos ran under one minute long.
Aug 27Nvidia has agreed to buy open source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported, though talks reportedly hadn’t produced a signed deal as of Wednesday night.
Aug 27Truthset’s audience-quality ratings, graded AAA to B, are now built into FreeWheel’s Identity Network and Audience Manager, live within days. By Q1 next year, Truthset IDs extend across FreeWheel’s unified audience marketplace.
Aug 27Universal Ads, Comcast’s self-serve TV ad platform, is using Tracer to unify operational and revenue data across systems — real-time visibility into delivery and forecasting as it scales AI-driven, self-serve products.
Aug 27More than a dozen OpenAI executives have left since January, the COO, CRO and CMO among them. Infrastructure and product now report to president Greg Brockman — power consolidating as the company preps a 2027 IPO.
Aug 27Butler/Till ran an end-to-end CTV campaign through PubMatic’s Agentic OS inside Claude — no DSP workflow, no manual optimization — cutting supply-chain costs 80% and lifting impressions 40% on the same budget.
Aug 27PromptWatch data shows Reddit’s share of ChatGPT citations fell from 3.83% — the highest of any platform — to under 1% in four days, echoing a September 2025 collapse. The share has since recovered; OpenAI hasn’t explained either move.
Aug 27Particle, the AI newsreader startup, launched Radar, a podcast intelligence platform that transcribes more than 130,000 shows with speaker labels, entity tracking and ad detection. Hedge funds are already its biggest API customers.
Aug 27Runable raised a $21 million Series A to push its AI agent beyond building websites into ad campaigns, social media and SEO for small businesses. It claims a $2 million run rate and 1.7 million registered users.
Aug 26Truthset’s Scott McKinley tells Evan Shapiro that data quality decides who gets results from AI-driven ad targeting — and argues quality-rated data has to reach more than the largest advertisers.
Aug 26Gamma, the AI presentation startup valued at $2.1B, acquired Accel-backed Lica to launch a research division on video and design. Lica’s co-founders will lead the effort, exploring new multimodal formats beyond slides.
Aug 25Apple Music now requires labels on AI-generated tracks; Spotify will tag AI artists and exclude them from editorial and algorithmic picks. AI tracks are a third of Apple uploads but under 0.5% of listening.
Aug 25IAB’s new guide maps how AI now touches planning, bidding, pricing, and optimization across programmatic video. It breaks down effects for advertisers, publishers, and DSPs/SSPs, and flags transparency as the industry’s next big question.
Aug 25Omnicom Media Group’s Ben Hovaness argues AI adoption should start with data governance and human oversight, not speed. He says agencies will win by orchestrating AI across ecosystems and by agreeing on consistent outcome measurement, not by owning the technology.
Aug 25Stability AI raised $76 million, bringing its total to $232 million. Backers include Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music and EA — companies it already has content and co-development deals with, not typical venture investors.
Aug 25OpenAI’s head of product Thibault Sottiaux tells TechCrunch that ChatGPT Work, its agent platform for white-collar tasks, has reached 20 million users. He frames it as bringing coding-agent capability to a broad, non-technical audience via a $20/month Plus plan.
Aug 25The IAB is building a framework for measuring ads seen or influenced by AI agents, due in November. But if AI platforms control the signals proving their own influence, independent measurement depends on data the sellers themselves supply.
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