OpenAI’s Images 2.6 brings GIFs to ChatGPT at 2.5’s token price
The new image models list at the same API rate as September’s, but they sit outside OpenAI’s half-price Batch option for jobs that can wait.
AI news, 5 November 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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Uber · AI agentsUber counted four AI-agent rides in a week of 320 million trips
Its first figures for orders placed by AI agents show about 500 Uber Eats orders and four rides during the week of Halloween.
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Google · AI checkoutGoogle opens AI Mode checkout to Canadian shoppers
Lululemon, Simons, Shoppers Drug Mart and select Shopify merchants are first, and Google says it starts widening access to other retailers through Merchant Center next year.
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Criteo · ChatGPT adsCriteo offers ChatGPT ads in 89 countries as revenue falls 11%
The ad tech firm says 3,600 clients have used ChatGPT ads on and off, but it gave no revenue figure for the channel and calls the market early.
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AppLovin · Q3 2026AppLovin revenue rises 55% as it rolls out new ad models
The mobile ad company says a partial rollout of new AI models helped the quarter, and that they work better for newer advertisers with little data.
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Microsoft Clarity · agentsMicrosoft’s Clarity now shows what AI agents do on your site
Microsoft says a new dashboard and simulated shopping runs track AI agents, and Brand Agents puts eligible shops in Copilot and Bing; supported agents include Google, OpenAI and Anthropic operators.
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The Trade Desk · DstilleryTrade Desk ties Koa to Dstillery’s agent for mid-flight audiences
Adweek reports the two AI agents can now build a custom ad audience during a live campaign, which Dstillery says cuts a four-day job to minutes, while buyers question the effect on spend.
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Anthropic · APAnthropic strikes first news licensing deal, with AP, Adweek says
Claude showed AP election data on midterm night, Adweek reports, after a long run in which, Adweek says, Anthropic signed no publisher while OpenAI signed more than a dozen.
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Reddit · search adsReddit trials ads in its own search as outside traffic falls
A small group of advertisers gets the new placement after Reddit’s search referrals fell by more than 1 million a week in October, a drop AdExchanger ties to AI Overviews.
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Fal · fundingFal’s valuation doubles to $16bn, Bloomberg reports
The company that runs image, video and audio models for other businesses raised $1.3 billion, and sources tell TechCrunch margins at rival inference firms stay thin.
