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Google has started telling users when an ad's creative was made with generative AI, via a new panel in My Ad Center. It is the first consumer-facing transparency layer on paid creative, and it forces growth teams to decide their disclosure posture before the labels decide it for them.
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Brave hit 100 million monthly active users and $26 million in revenue in 2023, growing 30% year-on-year. But the more consequential story is what it's quietly become: an AI search infrastructure provider feeding real-time web data to the top 10 LLMs, with billions of weekly API calls and 200,000 developers already signed up.
8 July 2026
Primary research · August 2026
How ChatGPT Shortlists Software Brands
An audit across 10 categories and 60 buying questions. I recorded what ChatGPT reads, throws away and links to when a buyer asks it which software to buy, and what that decides.
60
Questions asked
10
Software markets
2,680
Results read
367
Links shown
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