OpenAI plans image ads in ChatGPT, while Apple’s AI storage footprint and Norway’s glasses debate put user control in focus.
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OpenAI plans image ads in ChatGPT, while Apple’s AI storage footprint and Norway’s glasses debate put user control in focus.
OpenAI's latest ad format will put images of sponsored products and services on your screen. The ads, which OpenAI will begin testing in the US later this month, will "initially" appear when you generate images with ChatGPT, according to an announcement on Monday. The company first brought ads to ChatGPT in February. Until now, ChatGPT's
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Getting some extra storage space on your Mac could be as easy as deleting Apple's AI features with a new open-source command line tool called RemoveMacAI. There used to be a single Settings toggle for disabling Apple Intelligence, but that was removed in macOS 27. Now, the models stay on your disk, and the features
Why it matters: Worth opening because it exposes a practical implementation, not only an announcement.
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those in the AI industry. Google's Demis Hassabis calls the brain "a biological approximation to a Turing machine." Elon Musk puts it more bluntly,
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Today, I’m talking with Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. Sen. Schiff sits on a number of committees with oversight into tech and AI: intellectual property, antitrust, privacy and technology — it’s all there. I really wanted to ask him about how we might regulate anything related to the tech industry at this moment
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.