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Amazon Ads has expanded its self-service Sponsored TV product to small U.S. businesses that don’t sell on Amazon, offering no minimum spend and access to Prime Video inventory.
Sep 7Google is rolling out Gemini Spark capabilities that let the AI agent edit images, curate and share albums, and turn photos like concert flyers into calendar events.
Sep 7OpenAI’s ad business reached a $1 billion annualized run rate, based solely on actual spend, not credits, but that trails its own $2.5 billion 2026 projection.
Sep 5Comscore’s AI Intelligence now measures sponsored chat-based advertising in tools like ChatGPT, tracking how paid placements affect traffic and behavior. Early travel-category data shows sponsored-ad presence in hotel prompts jumped from 6% in March 2026 to 24% in May.
Sep 5CNN’s Guy Griggs describes how the network is using AI and first-party data to refine ad targeting and outcomes as part of a broader transformation strategy.
Sep 5Marketers now weigh two things when spending on creators: whether they move human audiences and whether they move algorithms inside AI platforms. That second factor hasn’t hit pricing yet, but it is already shaping creator briefs.
Sep 5OpenAI’s advertising business reached $1 billion in annualised revenue run rate, with ads now shown to most of ChatGPT’s 1 billion weekly users across more than 40 countries since the February US pilot.
Sep 5Google signed Jimmy Donaldson to a multiyear deal promoting Gemini, Google Health, and Fitbit, starting with a survival-themed video Sept. 5.
Sep 5CNN Headlines has reached over 60 million people this year, with monthly time spent tripling and streams topping 5 million in a single day during the Iran War, CNN said.
Sep 5Advertisers 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.
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