AI

OpenAI said on 23 September 2026 that ChatGPT Ads now runs in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan.

Google is folding Dynamic Search Ads into AI Max, with the last campaigns moving in February 2027.

AI Brief now covers seven more languages in beta. A new report will link search terms, ad assets and landing pages.

Equativ will help brands plan native ChatGPT ads in 12 countries. Its Ad Studio tool suggests targeting and creative.

Meta's Oversight Board overturned two decisions on 17 September and told the company to remove AI-made videos of a Scottish councillor and a Muslim campaigner.

Documents unsealed on 17 September in the New York Times copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft quote staff at both firms on the risk to news publishers.

Pinterest unveiled Visual Search Ads on 17 September. The beta opens to eligible advertisers in all its ad markets in the coming weeks.

DoubleVerify launched Ask Neura on 17 September, a chat tool for campaign quality data. It also connects to AI assistants such as Claude.

Google is testing a conversational agent inside YouTube ads that answers product questions in the ad itself.

Google is testing a Google Ads setting that lets a retailer raise or lower the value of single products, so automated bidding favours the ones that earn most.

Google said on 16 September that AI performance insights are now broadly available in Merchant Center in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the United States.

Mastercard expects more than one in ten online shoppers to buy through AI agents by 2030, about 300 million people.