OpenAI Is Putting Ads Next to Your AI-Generated Images Now
OpenAI has begun showing visual ads alongside the results of ChatGPT's image generation tool, a quiet but significant step into advertising for a company that built its reputation…
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The South Korea Bank Hacker Left His Resume in the AI Logs He Used to Break In
CrowdStrike says it found what looks like the suspected hacker's own resume buried in exposed AI session logs…
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China’s Manus Just Raised $500 Million in Its First Round Since the Meta Deal Fell Apart
Manus, the Chinese AI agent startup Meta once tried to buy into, has closed more than $500 million…
OpenAI Finally Responds to Its Fired Researchers, and Still Won’t Say What They Leaked
OpenAI's official Newsroom account said Friday it fired researchers Jasmine, Mikita and Tomek over "a significant breach of…
Grok 4.7 Is Here With Bigger Coding Claims and the Same Price Tag
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 with stronger coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at unchanged pricing, rolling it into GitHub Copilot…
Anthropic Will Give Your Startup a Free Year of Claude Team Plus $1,000 in Credits
TechCrunch reports Anthropic is giving eligible startups a free year of Claude Team along with $1,000 in API…
The Three Researchers OpenAI Fired for a ‘Leak’ Just Published Their Side of the Story
The three OpenAI researchers fired October 1 over an unexplained information leak published an open letter disputing that…
Apple’s Second October Event Is Coming October 27, and the MacBook Pro Is Finally Getting a Touchscreen
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is holding a second event this month, on or around October 27, to…
New Data Says AI Overviews Cut Your Click-Through Rate by 61 Percent. Clicks Didn’t Vanish Though.
Seer Interactive's 2026 update to its ongoing AI Overviews research found organic click-through rates falling 61 percent on…
Anthropic Launches a “Cyber Mission” to Defend Critical Infrastructure, With CrowdStrike as Its First Partner
Anthropic launched the Cyber Mission, a critical infrastructure defense program giving vetted defenders its AI models, threat research,…
OpenAI’s Revenue Is $20 Billion Short of What Got Reported, and Oracle Just Paid for It
The Financial Times reports OpenAI's annualized revenue was nearing $50 billion at the end of September, about $20…
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