Canva on April 8 acquired Simtheory and Ortto, adding agentic AI orchestration and a customer data platform with 11,000 customers to its growing martech stack.

OpenAI has quietly rolled out an ads manager for ChatGPT, cutting the minimum spend threshold from $250,000 to $50,000 as it races toward a planned IPO this year.

Index Exchange data from 1,200 publishers shows news ad requests fell just 7% while health and careers dropped 40-50% as AI overviews reshape web traffic in 2025.

W3C's February 2026 voice agents workshop flagged eight unresolved standards gaps covering interoperability, privacy, hallucination control, and accessibility.

A D.C. court dismissed the Helena World Chronicle antitrust suit against Google, ruling publishers lacked standing and failed to prove an online news monopoly.

System1 adds AI-assisted summaries and a predictive measurement tool to Test Your Ad, its platform backed by a 100,000-ad emotional norms database.

ChatGPT 5.3 links out to fewer sites while searching 10+ fan-outs per query, shifting AI visibility from citation volume to trust signals and brand authority.

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today ruled Section 230 does not shield Meta from state claims that Instagram was deliberately designed to addict children.