Google to bring ads to Gemini chatbot in 2026

It’s an end of an era: ads are finally coming to Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, AdWeek reports, citing agency buyers. Details are sparse but the search giant, which makes the vast majority of its revenue from ads, plans to turn on the ad spigot in its flagship chatbot sometime next year.

Google recently rolled out ads in AI Mode, its AI browser search option, after doing the same with its AI Overviews earlier in the year.

This is all happening as competitor OpenAI, which is in dire need of more revenue, disputes multiple reports of advertising coming to ChatGPT.

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026

This is all happening as competitor OpenAI, which is in dire need of more revenue, disputes multiple reports of advertising coming to ChatGPT.

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Reports: Meta training its new AI using rival models; switching to closed models in quest for profits

A pair of reports from The New York Times and Bloomberg detail the ongoing struggles between Meta’s upstart AI division and the rest of the company as it seeks to monetize its massive investments in AI.

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Elon Musk tells Google executive that “Waymo never really had a chance against Tesla”

Not one for modesty, Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to a post on X by Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google DeepMind, by saying, “Waymo never really had a chance against Tesla.” He added, “This will be obvious in hindsight.”

Dean had noted that Waymo vehicles have driven riders 96 million miles autonomously without a driver, alluding to the fact that Tesla’s Robotaxi service still requires safety operators in the front seat in both its locations.

Tesla currently operates about 30 Robotaxi vehicles in Austin and 120 in the Bay Area, while Waymo had more than 2,500 across the country (at least 200 in Austin and 1,000 in the Bay Area) as of late November. Musk has said Tesla would remove safety monitors in Austin and that it would scale to 500 vehicles there and 1,000 in the Bay Area by year-end, but the clock is ticking on reaching those goals.

Waymo never really had a chance against Tesla. This will be obvious in hindsight.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2025

Tesla, of course, is more focused on the 6.7 billion miles its vehicles have driven with Full Self-Driving tech, driver assistance software that requires a driver be present and paying attention. The idea is that, with a software update, millions of Teslas could be turned into potential robotaxis.

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Amazon announces major AI investment in India a day after Microsoft

Amazon said today that it plans to invest more than $35 billion in India by 2030, adding to the nearly $40 billion it has invested in the country so far. The latest investment is focused on AI-driven digitization, boosting exports, and expanding employment, the company said.

The news comes just after Microsoft revealed it would spend $17.5 billion on the subcontinent from 2026 to 2029 to accelerate the nation’s AI infrastructure.

India has become a strategic battleground for global tech firms thanks to its rapidly growing digital economy, vast developer base, and government support for AI infrastructure. Together, the back-to-back announcements underscore how aggressively both cloud giants are ramping up their global AI spending as they race to build — and profit from — the next generation of computing.

Amazon announces $35 billion investment in India by 2030 to advance AI innovation, create jobs

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Amazon more than doubled its same-day grocery cities since August

Perishables likes blueberries and avocados are now same-day delivery bestsellers for the retail giant.

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OpenAI races to release updated ChatGPT in response to Gemini, the WSJ reports

OpenAI could release an updated GPT-5.2 as soon as this week as it races to respond to Google’s Gemini 3 chatbot. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” in response to the threat, as Google appeared to leap to the front of the pack with its high-scoring AI model.

Altman has directed OpenAI teams to pause work on its quest for AGI and the Sora 2 video generation app, and double down on its core flagship product, ChatGPT, as it faces new pressure from competitors, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Altman seems to be panicking that if the company’s core product falls out of favor, it may not be able to generate the cash needed to pay for the $1.4 trillion worth of deals it has signed, according to the report.

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

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