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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Platforms

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115

• OpenAI
• ChatGPT
• Artificial intelligence
• Anthropic

OpenAI has begun testing ChatGPT advertising in the United States. The trial applies to logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans remain ad-free. Free users can also opt out of ads, but will receive fewer daily messages.

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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Policy & Security

2 m

135

• Gemini
• Google
• AI security

Gemini-based Google Translate can be hacked with words. Users can exploit so-called prompt injection—embedded instructions in natural language—to directly address the underlying language model instead of receiving a translation.

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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Industry

2 m

133

• OpenAI
• AI Safety
• AI industry

It appears that Anthropic is beginning to feel the “OpenAI effect.” Growing commercialization and the need to raise billions of dollars are forcing the company into compromises—such as accepting funding from authoritarian regimes, cooperating with the U.S. Department of Defense and companies like Palantir, or even offering explicit praise for Donald Trump.

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Robotics

2 m

114

• Autonomous Vehicles
• Robotics

Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI, in partnership with Toyota, has launched the commercial production of a self-driving electric vehicle. The first of 1,000 fully electric and autonomous Toyota bZ4X compact SUVs has rolled off the assembly line at a joint factory operated by Toyota and Guangzhou Automobile Group. The vehicles are intended to support Pony AI’s goal of expanding its robotaxi fleet to more than 3,000 cars by the end of the year. The bZ4X is one of three models that Pony AI is deploying with its latest autonomous driving software in major Chinese cities.

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Daniel Mercer

By Daniel Mercer

Category: Industry

2 m

96

• OpenAI
• AI hardware

OpenAI will not use the name “io” for its planned AI hardware devices. This follows a court filing submitted as part of a trademark lawsuit brought by audio startup iyO, according to Wired. OpenAI had already removed references to the project in June 2025.

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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Industry

2 m

119

• Bitcoin

Mining company Cango has sold 4,451 BTC on the open market. The sale represented roughly 60% of the firm’s bitcoin reserves, which previously stood at 7,476 BTC.

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Chris Borden

By Chris Borden

Category: Models

2 m

228

• AI models

ByteDance has released a new version of its AI video generation model, Seedance 2.0. The model supports eight languages. 

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Alex Rowland

By Alex Rowland

Category: Platforms

2 m

100

• OpenAI
• AI Agents
• AGI

Co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, has acquired the domain AI.com for $70 million in crypto assets and launched a consumer-focused AI platform.

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Admin

By Admin

Category: Models

2 m

127

• AI models
• Claude

Claude Opus 4.6 is currently the best AI model—at least until Artificial Analysis benchmarks OpenAI’s Codex 5.3, which is expected to take the lead in coding tasks. For now, Anthropic’s new model ranks first in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which aggregates results from ten benchmarks covering coding, agent-based tasks, and scientific reasoning. Opus 4.6 leads in three categories: agentic work tasks, terminal-based coding, and physics research problems