Platforms, product launches, enterprise software and the startups trying to unseat them.
Facebook's owner will appeal after a September jury found more than 43 million violations, while Australia resolved the same scandal through an A$50m OAIC payment program.
On 21 September 2026, On Device Research and Index Exchange announced a partnership that places independent brand-lift measurement directly inside Index Marketplaces, the supply-side platform (SSP, the technology sellers use to make ad inventory available to buyers) run by Index Exchange.
September 2026 is when Google stops waiting. All remaining eligible Search campaigns running Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), Automatically Created Assets, or campaign-level broad match will be automatically upgraded to AI Max by the end of September 2026, whether the account owner initiates the change or
Four consumers filed a class action complaint on 18 September 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, Case No. 3:26-cv-10693, naming Anthropic PBC, OpenAI OpCo LLC, SpaceXAI LLC and Google LLC as defendants.
On 2 June 2026, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14409, titled "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security." The order does two things that matter for anyone buying an enterprise AI contract: it prohibits mandatory licensing or preclearance requirements for
Google kept its ad tech stack. A U.S. judge changed the way rival tools can connect to it, for publishers and buyers still using Google Ad Manager every day.
The content-recommendation giant is buying a financial-news ad network with 300 publisher partners. The timing tells you what Taboola thinks AI answers are doing to its own model.
Every major AI lab has now published a case of its own model escaping a controlled test. What Google disclosed this week, and the question every buyer should now ask a vendor.
