Sarah Perez

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OpenAI adds display ads to ChatGPT image generation results

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports OpenAI is adding visual display ads beside ChatGPT image generation results, starting this month in the U.S. with an initial test group of advertisers, alongside expanded measurement partnerships and brand suitability pilots with DoubleVerify and IAS.

Creators

Meta’s Muse AI agent hits No. 2 despite a slow download start

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Muse topped 83,000 U.S. iOS downloads and climbed to No. 2 on the App Store, per Sensor Tower, but trails Meta’s own Threads and Meta AI launches and ChatGPT’s debut pace.

Sep 10

Ad-tech

Apple’s new CEO stakes AI strategy on the iPhone, not new hardware

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that John Ternus, taking over from Tim Cook, opened Apple’s fall event by calling the iPhone the ideal “intelligent personal hub” for AI.

Sep 10

Ad-tech

Instinct gives its AI agent its own email address to run tasks

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Instinct, the AI assistant valued at $2.5 billion, now issues every user an Instinct email address so the agent can create accounts, contact businesses, and handle support requests on its own.

Sep 10

Ad-tech

Meta launches Muse, an AI agent that wants your email, calendar and payments

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Meta debuted Muse, a personal AI agent that connects to email, calendars, payments, health, and shopping apps to complete tasks like booking travel or checking out purchases via Link by Stripe.

Sep 9

Creators

Gemini Spark gains control over Google Photos libraries

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Google 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 7

Retail-media

Amazon adds AI scam-checker to Alexa for Shopping

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Amazon 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 2

Creators

Google launches Pics, an AI design tool baked into Workspace

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Google 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 2

Retail-media

Amazon’s Alexa can now nudge you to buy before you even ask

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Amazon 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 1

Creators

Particle’s Radar turns 130,000 podcasts into an API for AI agents

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that Particle, 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 27