As publishers and advertisers race to serve ads to AI agents, measurement remains opaque and no standard has emerged, according to startups OpenAds and Oasy. OpenAds uses unique referral codes that su…
OpenAI told investors its revenue grew just 18% from the first to second quarter of 2026, reaching $6.7 billion in the quarter ending June, compared with $5.7 billion the prior quarter, according to a…
Technology critic and professor Enrico Coiera argues in a Time essay that while generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini risk further dematerializing daily life, they also have the potenti…
A Claude AI agent managing Andon Market, a San Francisco retail store operated by startup Andon Labs, fired a human employee for chronic lateness, marking one of the first documented cases of an AI sy…
AI cannot replicate the human ability to observe and connect with patients, a skill essential to medicine, argues Dr. Daniel Marchalik, an internal medicine resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in a Ti…
Perplexity has begun blocking ads served to AI agents on Time's website, warning publishers that running such 'deceptive advertising' could result in downranking in its search index. The ads, created …
Perplexity has blocked Time's markdown ads from influencing its search index, calling them 'deceptive advertising,' less than two weeks after Time began serving ads to AI agents. Perplexity's chief co…
Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically aimed at AI agents, converting its webpages to markdown and using AI to generate FAQ-style sponsored content, with brands including Ally Bank and Proje…
Time and other publishers are creating markdown versions of their websites to make content easier for AI bots to parse, but skeptics argue it is unnecessary since AI can already interpret standard web…
Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically designed for AI bots, monetizing its machine-readable pages as premium inventory in a model that shifts payment from AI vendors to advertisers. The pub…
Adtech startup Mobian and publisher Time are serving 'Agent Ads' to AI crawlers on text-only webpages, with brands including Ally Bank and the Project Management Institute participating, sparking deba…
Time magazine has begun serving advertisements to AI agents, allowing brands such as Ally and the Project Management Institute to influence their presence in generative AI search results. The ads enab…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows b…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots in an attempt to monetize bot traffic, with CEO Jonah Goodhart of Mobian noting that influencing AI agents could become more important than influencing humans. Se…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert its pages into markdown and generate …
Time has begun serving ads to AI agents, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert pages into markdown and generate FA…
A new wave of public backlash against the AI industry is intensifying, with 40% of US adults predicting AI will have a negative impact on society, according to Pew Research, and 75% opposing hyperscal…
A viral arXiv paper co-authored by 2026 Fields Medal recipient Jacob Tsimerman, titled "A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence," has drawn criticism for its speculative pred…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said the company's mission is to provide equal access to education, starting with languages because English proficiency can increase earning potential for nearly 2 billion le…
Darren Aronofsky's AI film studio Primordial Soup has raised $11 million of a planned $15 million equity round, according to an SEC filing. The company, co-founded by Aronofsky and producer Dylan Gold…