Google Ads says an AI label cannot excuse a fake public figure
Google’s Unacceptable Business Practices policy now spells out that an ad impersonating a public figure with AI breaks the rules even when it says it was made with AI.
AI news, 13 November 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 11:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Meta · AI ad toolsMeta ads can show discounts shops switched off, adviser finds
A Commerce Manager setting lets Meta put a shop’s website offers into its Facebook and Instagram ads, a marketing adviser found, even in copied ads with promotions turned off.
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OpenAI · ChatGPT AdsChatGPT product ads can now target regions inside a country
OpenAI’s weekly note to advertisers adds regional targeting for product feed campaigns, product sets that stack several conditions on one field, and a new name for Autobid.
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IAB · AI attributionIAB sorts AI shopping into three paths for credit claims
The industry body’s attribution blueprint says who may claim a sale an AI assistant shaped, and admits much of the evidence goes uncollected or stays inside the AI platforms.
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Nectar · Creator marketingNectar’s AI agent finds and messages creators for brands
Creator Agent searches what Nectar says are more than 300 million creator profiles, drafts outreach in a brand’s voice and tracks the partnership afterwards.
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Google · Gemini 4 HydrogenGemini 4 Hydrogen becomes the default model in Google’s AI Mode
Google’s new fast everyday model now answers AI Mode questions worldwide and the hardest AI Overviews, two days into the November core update.
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Podqi · AI shopping answersAI chatbots send shoppers to fake stores, Podqi study finds
Across 6,795 where-to-buy answers about 151 brands, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommended risky sites 6.3 times as often as they warned against them, Podqi says.
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ElevenLabs · Scribe v3ElevenLabs’ Scribe v3 Live labels each speaker during the call
ElevenLabs says its new speech-to-text models cut errors against Scribe v2, and they let voice agents judge when a caller has finished instead of waiting out a silence.
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Meta · MuseMeta’s Muse now phones US businesses for paying users
Muse subscribers in the US can ask Meta’s AI agent to ring a cable company, an insurer or a restaurant on their behalf, after a trial that began in September.
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Phota Labs · AI photosPhota Labs launches a free AI photo assistant on iPhone
Founded by two former Adobe researchers, the a16z-backed start-up says it learns the faces in a camera roll so its edits keep people looking like themselves.
