AI Max takes 16% of Google spend, Skai data shows
Google’s AI-led search campaigns more than doubled their share of spend on Skai’s platform this year, helped by automatic upgrades.
AI news, 1 November 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 02:30 UTC, 10 stories
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AI agents · privacy controls14 of 29 AI products document an ad data opt-out, paper finds
Researchers counted 788 privacy settings across 30 AI assistants and agent tools, and found no field for privacy choices in the protocols agents use.
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Roblox · AI creation and adsRoblox says AI-built games push developers to buy ads
Over 80 per cent of Roblox’s top 100 games used AI in the past month, and its chief executive says more developers now pay for traffic.
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Meta · S&P outlookS&P cuts Meta’s outlook and doubts its AI can pay its way
The rating agency kept Meta at AA- but moved it to negative, saying Meta’s ability to make money from its AI spending is more limited than its peers’.
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WPP · Q3 2026WPP says clients want its AI tools as net sales slip 2%
The ad group’s production arm grew while lost clients still weighed on revenue, and it expects to grow again during 2027.
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OpenAI · funding roundOpenAI cuts its funding target to $20 billion, reports say
The ChatGPT maker has about $11 billion committed so far, the Wall Street Journal reports, after the Financial Times reported the lower target.
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Nvidia · Nscale financingNvidia weighs backing loans for Nscale’s Anthropic data centre
The chipmaker is in talks to guarantee billions in debt for a West Virginia site Anthropic has signed up to use, The Information reports.
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OpenAI · memory supplyAltman says scarce memory belongs in data centres
OpenAI’s chief executive argues that running AI on home computers wastes memory chips that would work harder in the cloud.
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Google · Project SuncatcherGoogle’s AI satellite sends its first answer from orbit
A Gemma 4 model running on a Google TPU in space wrote a haiku, an early milestone in Google’s research into running AI computing in orbit.
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Microsoft · OpenAI revenueMicrosoft books $10 billion from OpenAI in a quarter
OpenAI now brings in about 11 per cent of Microsoft’s revenue, and owes it $7.2 billion, the company’s filing shows.
