United Airlines bars AI agents from booking its flights
Agents such as Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots can still show United fares, but a new contract rule lets the airline cancel any ticket an agent books or changes.
AI news, 12 November 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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Shopify · Campaign AutopilotShopify says Campaign Autopilot charges merchants only per sale
Shopify’s AI campaign tool buys ads on Meta, Microsoft and Snapchat for its merchants, who set the price they will pay for each sale while Shopify carries the media risk.
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Google · Gemini Decision 1Google’s Gemini Decision 1 scores up to 1,000 questions at once
The new model answers yes-or-no, multiple-choice and rubric questions about text, images, video or PDFs in a quarter of a second, with no charge for its answers.
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US midterms · AI adsAI-made midterm ads passed $187 million, Wesleyan counts
Wesleyan’s 29 October count found 289 ads made or enhanced with AI, about 90 per cent of the money from the Republican side, against about $50,000 in 2024.
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Reddit · product pagesReddit turns subreddit threads into AI-built product pages
Reddit’s new hub sorts what users say about 10,000 products into pros, cons and a sentiment chart, and says brands cannot pay to be featured.
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X · AI labelsX previews labels that explain why its AI flagged a post
X’s head of safety showed advertisers labels that give a route to appeal, the size of a reach cut and what its AI spotted, as X tries to win back brand budgets.
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Rox · sales agentsRox raises $100 million for AI agents that prepare sales outreach
The start-up’s agents research accounts, rank prospects and draft outreach on a company’s own data, and investors now value it at $1.3 billion as it takes on Salesforce.
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Adobe · GoogleAdobe brings its creative tools into Google’s AI Mode
A wider Adobe and Google deal puts Adobe’s editing tools inside AI Mode in Search and Gemini, Acrobat in Gmail and Drive, and a campaign agent in Gemini Enterprise.
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Mars · agentic commerceMars plans for AI agents that do the weekly grocery run
The M&Ms maker is tracking how its brands show up in AI answers so that shopping agents pick them, while it builds in-store experiences for the buys agents skip.
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Google · Nano BananaGoogle maps how people use Nano Banana across 2.1 million chats
A privacy-protected study of Gemini image chats finds much of the marketing work serves new or invented brands, and that users start over far more often than they tweak.
