OpenAI is extending ads in ChatGPT to 26 more countries and says more than 100,000 advertisers have used the platform, from local businesses to global brands. It pitches the format as a way to reach people while they explore, compare and decide what to buy.
Nearly 100,000 Commerce.com domains now give AI agents real shopping tools through WebMCP running on Cloudflare. Cloudflare explains how it enabled the feature across every store at once while leaving each merchant in control.
Streaming services, musicians and fans are all pushing back against the spread of AI-generated music. Even enthusiasts such as Grimes and A$AP Rocky, who welcome AI content, say they will not make it themselves, and Spotify has just reported removing about 50 million slop tracks from its recommendations.
As AI-generated texts multiply, publishers are trying several ways to protect authors and reassure readers. Contract clauses, detection tools and transparency labels are at the heart of a response that is still in its early days.
The author argues that AI is erasing the historical extra cost of native mobile development compared with cross-platform tools. That shift, they say, reshuffles mobile engineering and changes architecture choices.
French media lost 22.9% of their visits in a year as Google's AI Overviews spread. With Google's preferred sources feature, the article argues, brand recognition becomes an SEO lever in its own right.