AI Will Fundamentally Reshape How Advertising...

We hate ads. Developers especially. We run ad blockers, we pay for premium tiers, we opt out of every tracking prompt. But here's what's strange: the seven most powerful AI companies in the world can't agree on whether ads belong in AI at all. Google is embedding ads into AI Overviews. OpenAI reversed its "ads are a last resort" stance and shipped ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic ran Super Bowl commercials declaring "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude." Perplexity tried ads, users revolted, and th