Every Company Building Your AI Assistant Is Now an Ad Company
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Friday, 20 February 2026 ·
Adam Juhasz
On January 16, OpenAI quietly announced that ChatGPT would begin showing
advertisements. By February 9th, ads were live. Eight months earlier,
OpenAI spent $6.5 billion to acquire Jony Ive's hardware startup io.
They're building a pocket-sized, screenless device with built-in cameras
and microphones -- "contextually aware," designed to replace your phone.
But this isn't a post about ...
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