Day: October 5, 2026

OpenAI Just Monetized the Loading Screen OpenAI just put a price tag on the most boring five seconds in AI: the wait while your image renders. On Monday, October 5, the company announced it will begin testing a visual ad format that appears during ChatGPT image generation, starting later this month in the United States… Read more

For months, ChatGPT Ads have been the industry’s most exciting black box. Brands wanted in, because 1.2 billion weekly users is not a number you ignore, but the budgets stayed at test level for one brutal reason: nobody could prove the ads worked. This morning, DoubleVerify blew that door open. DV launched attribution measurement for… Read more