Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads

Source: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/10/advertisers-are-trying-to-influence-ai-bots-with-secret-ads/5285093

PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.

KETTLE OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins,  and AI crawlers are getting th… [+28705 chars]