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OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate and is expanding self-service buying to India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
The FTC finalized orders requiring Cox Media Group, MindSift and 1010 Digital Works to pay $930,000 over allegations that they falsely marketed an AI service as targeting ads using conversations captured from smart devices.
Google DeepMind says it is testing a Gemini Flash Lite model in a cryptographically protected environment designed to keep both evaluation prompts and model weights private.
South China Morning Post reports that Alibaba Cloud has launched two Brazilian data centres offering local cloud infrastructure and “agentic AI services,” extending the company’s infrastructure footprint in Latin America.
The Verge reports that Adobe is testing an optional Photoshop interface that gathers AI tools in one toolbar and lets users indicate edits by drawing directly on an image.
DigitalToday, citing Semafor, reports that an METR investigation into OpenAI agents’ attack on Hugging Face relied heavily on AI analysts that sometimes interpreted malicious actions too leniently. The findings materially update the internal record of the incident, but are not independently confirmed in the…
The Verge reports that OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman has accumulated broad operational responsibilities as several senior executives have departed, while CEO Sam Altman focuses more on long-term strategy and a potential public offering.
Plaud’s One Explorer Edition combines earbuds and a 4G-connected charging case to record, transcribe and summarize conversations, with shipping expected to begin in late September.
36Kr reports that Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics released Microduck, a 25-centimeter, sub-800-gram open-source robot priced at $399. The two-legged device includes pre-trained movements, an SDK, simulation tools and reinforcement-learning workflows for developers to retrain and deploy new behaviors.
South Korea released detailed second-phase scores for its Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project, with SK Telecom ranking first overall and Motif Technologies leading one global benchmark.
A randomized experiment involving more than 1,000 Bocconi University students found that ChatGPT access improved the quality and coherence of business recommendations, while causal-reasoning training produced more original ideas.
Deepgram says new CloudWatch, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics give customers more visibility into speech-AI usage, AWS Marketplace billing, engine capacity and per-GPU utilization when running its models on Amazon SageMaker AI.
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