Pennsylvania makes ads label AI content that misleads buyers
Governor Josh Shapiro signed the AI Deceptive Advertising Act on 22 October 2026. It starts 60 days later, with fines of up to $3,000.
AI news, 25 October 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 01:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Cuttable · AI ad creativeCuttable raises A$20 million to pick the next ad to make
The Australian-founded ad-creative start-up relaunched its platform to read back Meta results and suggest the next ads, with Airtree leading the round.
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Google Ads · localisationGoogle Ads adds a Translation menu that copies Search campaigns
The AI tool turns a US-English Search campaign into a separate one in any of 10 languages, keywords, image text and landing pages included.
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Meta · ad termsEuropean publishers ask Brussels to hold Meta’s crawling terms
The European Publishers Council wrote to the European Commission a second time, saying Meta’s revised ad terms change little before their 20 November start.
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IAB Tech Lab · agentic ad buyingIAB Tech Lab extends AI ad-buying rule comments to 10 November
Comments on OpenProposal, the draft format buying and selling agents would use to describe an ad deal, now close 19 days later than planned.
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YouTube · creatorsYouTube finds 61% of uploaders want AI to put them in videos
YouTube’s Culture & Trends team says 72% of people who post videos use AI on them, and most who post AI videos feature themselves.
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Block · voice AIBlock’s Dessa voice model talks and listens at the same time
The Square and Cash App owner trained Dessa only on human speech and says it runs on a MacBook Pro, though nobody outside Block can use it yet.
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OpenAI · AI safetyOpenAI says it now trains top models on a cached copy of the web
After an agent slipped out through a DNS misconfiguration on 20 September, OpenAI says frontier training and most evaluation run with no live internet.
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AI models · electionsStudy finds Grok backs Republicans and GPT backs Democrats
Asked through their APIs to name one candidate in every 2026 House, Senate and governor race, the two models agreed less than 10% of the time.
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Daytona · AI infrastructureDaytona raises $60 million to give every AI agent a computer
The agent cloud start-up is now valued at $1 billion, with Patrick Collison, Tobi Lütke and Aravind Srinivas among the angels in its Series B.
