The Gemini app has long been a refuge from the constant clutter of the modern web. There were no banners or sponsored snippets. Now, that clean interface is about to change. A Google executive suggests the company is not ruling out ways to make money from its flagship AI assistant.

Apple is planning to start showing ads in the Apple Maps app this summer, and signs of ads have already shown up in the iOS 26.5 beta as Apple prepares to roll them out. Where Ads Show Up Ads will be displayed in the Apple Maps search interface.

AI in advertising has gone from a buzzword to a full disruptor in what feels like just a few months. If CES was any indication, there is no sign of this slowing down. Yet, although everyone’s talking, few are seeing real results. New research from ...

Elon Musk’s X is still trying to woo back advertisers — this time with a rebuilt, AI-powered ads platform that started to rollout on Thursday. Now, X is hoping to juice that growth further with a new ad platform.

In an email to developers this week, Apple indicated that it will begin showing additional ads in App Store search results starting Tuesday, March 3. The extra ads will first appear in the App Store in the U.K. and Japan, followed by other markets like the ...

Anthropic has announced today that it will not embed ads in conversations with Claude. Including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking. We want ...

Ads are now being tested in ChatGPT in the U.S., appearing for some users across different account types. For the first time, advertising is entering an AI answer environment – and that changes the rules for marketers. We’ve used AI as part of ad ...

OpenAI's slow, conservative rollout of ads on ChatGPT is frustrating some partners, who are excited about the opportunity, ad industry sources told CNBC Three of the world's largest ad agencies, WPP, Omnicom and Dentsu, are part of the testing program.

In a new brief titled Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis, the Department of Global Communications and the Conscious Advertising Network caution that unchecked AI adoption in advertising is accelerating risks across the whole digital information ecosystem.