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ChatGPT is expanding ads to logged-out users, increasing inventory and making it easier for advertisers to scale spend.

It was the classic “take out the trash” move. On Friday, Jan. 16, late in the afternoon before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, OpenAI confirmed what industry insiders have long suspected: ...

The next scam you run into may not arrive by email. It is more likely to show up as an online ad. That is the takeaway from The Media Trust’s 2026 Intelligence Report, which found that ad-delivery ...

Earlier this week, Criteo confirmed it is the first ad tech partner to integrate with OpenAI’s advertising pilot in the U.S., available in ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers. The move formalizes what the ...

Ad Inventory: According to iSpot, a company that tracks ads, about 22.7% of the commercials – that’s 15 out of 66 – were ...

Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote ...

It was a big-tech Super Bowl, where even the ads that weren’t about AI were about AI. Svedka’s AI-generated vodka ad went down like a shot of warm slop, and a self-referential ad for Artlist, a stock ...

The big game proved to be a big tech fail for two prominent Super Bowl advertisers. Mr Beast and Salesforce's big game contest had signup delays, while AI.com's website crashed. Elsewhere, some Kalshi ...