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Zuckerberg claims this could be one of the most valuable AI systems ever built, generating thousands of image ads and testing them in real time, but it raises a bigger question: is this the future of advertising, or just another wave of AI slop flooding your feed?

Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity () podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony Ha are unpacking why Zuckerberg’s vision could be a marketer’s dream or creative agency’s worst nightmare, and what else caught our eye in tech this week.

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How Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro managed to beat Pokémon Blue () . Max was unimpressed, but the Equity crew thinks gamifying AI benchmarks might be the way to go.

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A new venture from Brian Armstrong (‘) that just raised $130 million to develop cutting-edge age-reversing treatments, and who else is using AI () to help us live forever

Equity will be back next week, so stay tuned!

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