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OpenAI backs California youth AI safety bill as ChatGPT Ads reaches $1B

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Generated by AI · 31 August 2026 OpenAI backs California youth AI safety bill as ChatGPT Ads reaches $1B

OpenAI has announced support for California SB 1119 (opens in a new tab), advancing age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens, alongside a milestone for its advertising arm: ChatGPT Ads (opens in a new tab) has reached a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate and is expanding globally. The company also spotlighted Polimill (opens in a new tab), which uses GPT models to help Japanese municipalities manage administrative knowledge. Elsewhere, Cloudflare introduced Adaptive Intelligence (opens in a new tab), a new approach to undermining the economics of bot attacks. In the ecommerce space, WooCommerce 11.1 (opens in a new tab) delivers 40% faster Store API and REST requests by skipping block registration.