OpenAI starts laying foundations for ChatGPT ads in EU

OpenAI appears to be getting ready to expand its ads business to Europe. 

A code update to its conversion tracking pixel, which Digiday reviewed, points to the company building the technical groundwork needed to run advertising in the European Union. The update adds a consent management system, essentially a mechanism that lets advertisers ask users for permission before tracking them, and stops tracking if that permission is withdrawn.

Advertisers can flag or exclude specific actions — a purchase, say, or a sign-up — from tracking. Moreover, the update also adds a country field to the data the pixel collects, suggesting OpenAI is building it with jurisdictional data handling in mind. 

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Taboola’s next act: an AI answer engine for publishers

More publishers are turning to AI-powered search and chatbot tools to make their sites stickier to users and offset the impact of zero-click search. 

HuffPost UK, Reach and USA Today Co., are among the latest to add a new AI answer engine toolbar from Taboola, to answer users’ questions with a few AI-generated paragraphs and surface relevant articles from the publishers’ archives.

The tool, called DeeperDive, is provided by content recommendation tech company Taboola, which claims it has onboarded “dozens” of publishers since the product launched in September 2025.

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