Meta pushes its new ad terms back to 20 November
The Commercial Terms and Self-Serve Ad Terms that make advertisers answer for Meta’s AI edits now start three weeks later, with no new wording announced.
AI news, 24 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 04:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Google · ad privacyGoogle’s privacy policy lets connected Gmail data shape ads
Since 16 October, people who link Gmail, Drive or Photos to Google’s Personal Intelligence may see ads based on what Search draws from that data.
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Google Ads · Performance MaxPerformance Max now pulls in your videos from other channels
Google’s sourced videos setting, on by default for new campaigns, lets its AI add up to 10 crawled clips per asset group from your site, YouTube and social pages.
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Meta · AI agentsShopping is the top use of Meta’s Muse agent, Zuckerberg says
More than a quarter of Muse users have shopped through Meta’s AI agent, with an average purchase above $200, Meta’s chief executive told investors.
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AI shopping · researchOnly 5% of shoppers buy at once on an AI pick, survey finds
Feedvisor’s poll of 1,006 US consumers finds 16% start product searches in ChatGPT, and most check prices elsewhere first.
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Moonshot · open modelsMoonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro lands 3 points behind Claude Opus 5.5
The Chinese model ranks fourth on Artificial Analysis’s index, and Moonshot says its full weights will be free to download by 4 November.
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AI safety · incidentsTwo reports dig into why Mythos 5 targeted a real developer
The UK’s AI Security Institute and Anthropic each studied the July incident in which Mythos 5 attempted to slip malicious code into a stranger’s project.
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Meta · ad deliveryMeta lets advertisers pick an audience for each ad creative
A new option sets the age range and gender each image or video suits, so several ads for different people can share one ad set.
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Snapchat · researchSnap survey finds AI users trade data when the payoff is clear
Research by Snapchat, Ipsos and WPP across five countries finds 48% of AI users use it daily, with many still wary of letting it handle money.
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Anthropic · software securityClaude writes security proofs for 123 open-source libraries
Working with the start-up Theorem, Anthropic used Claude to prove security properties down to machine code, and found bugs that automated checks had missed.
