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AI - Apr 26, 2026 Connecticut's AI bill targets companion bots, hiring tools and frontier models

Connecticut Senate legislators debate AI bill at night outside the State Capitol in Hartford

Connecticut Substitute Bill No. 5 covers AI companions, automated hiring, frontier model safety obligations and a new Connecticut AI Academy across 37 sections.

by Luis Rijo

Search - Apr 26, 2026 Google Ads now uses AI to qualify phone call leads

AI neural network analyzing a phone call on a vintage rotary telephone, dark cinematic

Google Ads replaces call duration metrics with AI-qualified conversions, filtering spam calls and feeding cleaner signals into Smart Bidding for US and Canada.

by Luis Rijo

AI - Apr 26, 2026 OpenAI's new OAI-AdsBot is quietly crawling your landing pages

Robotic spider bot crawling a glowing digital web, representing OpenAI OAI-AdsBot crawler

OpenAI launched OAI-AdsBot, a dedicated crawler that checks ChatGPT ad landing pages for policy compliance and relevance without training AI models on the data.

by Luis Rijo

AI - Apr 26, 2026 Youtility raises $4.2M to kill demographic guesswork with behavioral AI

Youtility Decision Science closed a $4.2M seed round on April 23, 2026, with Fyllo and Silver Falcon Capital to build real-time behavioral AI decisioning APIs.

by Luis Rijo

AI - Apr 25, 2026 AI agents leak owner data at scale, study finds - and it is not by design

AI agents transmitting owner behavioral data and private documents across a network at night.

Research on 10,659 AI agent pairs finds agents systematically mirror owner behavior across 43 features, with 34.6% exposing sensitive personal data publicly.

by Luis Rijo

AI - Apr 25, 2026 Ad tech braces for AI agents

AI agent at programmatic console with IAB, ChatGPT and ad tech logos in server hall.

ChatGPT ads reach logged-out users, IAB Tech Lab forms a programmatic governance council, SECURE Data Act targets state privacy laws, and Google resets its spam tools.

by Luis Rijo

Data - Apr 25, 2026 Dutch DPA opens consultation on explaining automated decisions to individuals

Dutch DPA opens consultation on draft guidance requiring organisations to explain algorithmic and AI decisions to affected individuals. Closes 26 May 2026.

by Luis Rijo

AI - Apr 24, 2026 OpenAI tripled its web crawl after GPT-5 - but ChatGPT users may be declining

SimilarWeb chart showing OpenAI generative AI traffic share decline from 85% to 65%, 2025-2026.

New log file analysis of 7 billion OpenAI bot events reveals a 3.5x surge in OAI-SearchBot activity after GPT-5, while ChatGPT user-driven events dropped 28%.

by Luis Rijo