{
  "id": 682301,
  "title": "The dream of serving ads to AI agents has hit a snag",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/the-dream-of-serving-ads-to-ai-agents-has-hit-a-snag",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T16:11:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-thwarts-times-ads-for-ai-bots-experiment-2026-8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Perplexity said ads designed to influence AI bots are \"deceptive,\" in response to a recent experiment from the publisher Time.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}