Meta’s new terms leave advertisers liable for its AI ad edits
From 30 October, businesses carry the risk of whatever Meta’s AI features add to or change in their ads, even features Meta turns on itself, Adweek reports.
AI news, 23 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 06:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Canva · image modelsCanva launches Craft, an image model trained on its templates
Canva’s first in-house image model plans a layout before drawing it, and entered DesignArena’s crowdsourced leaderboard in fourth place, Canva says.
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OpenAI · fundingOpenAI nears a $30 billion round at a $1.25 trillion valuation
Investors from the UAE and Coatue lead the round, CNBC reports; a month ago, reports put the target at $1.4 trillion.
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Walmart · agent shoppingWalmart gives AI shopping agents their own spending limits
Each agent gets a profile inside the customer’s account and can be capped at a set amount; agents that break Walmart’s new rules get blocked.
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Meta · AI creativeNearly 10 million advertisers used Meta’s AI ad tools, Meta says
On its earnings call, Meta also put ads run with creators at a $15 billion yearly run rate, up more than 97 per cent on a year earlier.
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Google Ads · Performance MaxNew Performance Max campaigns pull images from your site
From 4 December, image extraction is on by default in new campaigns, even where an advertiser switched dynamic images off for the whole account.
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Microsoft · health AIMicrosoft says its AI beat generalist doctors on hard cases
In a study published in Science, MAI-DxO reached the right diagnosis in 83 per cent of complex cases, against 36 per cent for doctors using references.
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Google · GeminiGemini adds a small-business hub that keeps images on brand
Owners upload their colours, fonts, brand kit or website once, and Gemini applies that style whenever it draws marketing images with Nano Banana 2.1.
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Anthropic · open standardsAnthropic hands Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
The standard for reusable agent instructions joins MCP at the Linux Foundation group, which took in projects from OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba the same day.
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1Password · agents1Password lets AI agents sign in without seeing your password
The agent asks to log in, you approve it, and 1Password fills in the credentials itself; agents from Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI are among those supported.
