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Adthena shortlisted at the Search ‘n Stuff Awards 2026

Adthena has been shortlisted at the Search ‘n Stuff Awards 2026, and its AI Overview Dashboard won at the Global Search Awards 2026.

OpenAI launches product carousels in ChatGPT ads

OpenAI has added a product-carousel ad format to ChatGPT that displays multiple products in a single placement at the bottom of user conversations, built from retailers' product feeds. While carousels currently surface items from a single retailer, the system supports showing multiple retailers side-by-side. OpenAI's ad platform automatically determines whether to serve a single-product ad or a carousel. Separately, an AppsFlyer integration lets roughly 40 brands (including Grubhub) attribute app installs, in-app purchases, and subscriptions to ChatGPT ads, though it does not measure incrementality. The rollout follows automation that enables retailers to bulk-create product-feed campaigns and includes guidance ahead of Q4 holiday spending. Together these moves create basic infrastructure for performance advertising on ChatGPT, even as advertiser control, measurement depth and scale remain open; reported ad-revenue targets include $2.5 billion for 2026 and $100+ billion by 2030.

• OpenAI launched a product-carousel ad format in ChatGPT that appears at the bottom of conversations and expands from single-product ads.
• Carousels and single-product ads are generated from retailers' product feeds; carousels currently show items from one retailer but the system can support multiple retailers side-by-side.
• OpenAI's ad platform decides whether to serve a single-product ad or a carousel rather than advertisers selecting the format.

Knowledge: Live Stock Prices, Sports, Crypto, And More. Now In Web Search. Same $5 CPM.

You.com has launched a new 'Knowledge' feature for its Web Search API, adding live stock prices, crypto, weather, and prediction markets at the same $5 CPM price point. The company also announced a partnership with Pydantic AI for agent orchestration and released several new developer guides and product updates.

Richard Socher's Recursive Raises $4.65B Seed for Self-Improving AI

In a podcast episode, Richard Socher discusses his new venture, Recursive, which raised a $4.65B seed round to develop self-improving AI systems. Socher outlines his vision of a 'Eureka Machine' that can automate AI research itself, compressing years of human work into weeks. He details early results where Recursive's system outperformed humans and other agents on optimization tasks like NanoChat, NanoGPT, and NVIDIA GPU kernels. He critiques Anthropic's constitutional AI approach as ineffective and advocates for open-source models as geopolitical soft power. He also shares his framework of ten 'spaces of intelligence' and discusses the potential of AI for driving scientific breakthroughs in areas like energy, materials, and biology.

• Recursive raised a $4.65B seed round.
• Richard Socher is the founder of Recursive, You.com, and AIX Ventures.
• Recursive's AI system outperformed humans and agents on optimization tasks in under two days.

You.com announces the Answer API: grounded, cited answers powered by real-time web search

You.com introduces the Answer API, providing grounded, cited answers powered by real-time web search. The new API is now available and featured on the homepage.