ChatGPT users who pay for premium tiers recently found themselves doing a double take when the chatbot began surfacing “app suggestions” mid conversation that looked a lot like ads.  Screenshots shared by Plus, Pro, and Enterprise subscribers showed promotional style messages pointing to recognizable brands like Peloton and Target, prompting a blunt question: why does a paid AI service appear to be selling something while you are trying to work?. As complaints spread, OpenAI

Opera is rolling out a major expansion of its browser-based artificial intelligence, introducing a new generation of AI tools across Opera One, Opera GX and Opera Neon that will now be freely available to more than 80 million users worldwide.  This upgrade is the result of Opera’s deepened partnership with Google, which brings the latest Gemini models directly into the browser environment. By integrating AI at the browser level rather than relying on standalone chat interfac

OpenAI’s viral chatbot is approaching a major shift, as new leaks strongly suggest that ChatGPT will soon include advertising across its platform.  The discovery arrives just after ChatGPT’s third anniversary, a milestone that highlights the chatbot’s extraordinary rise since late 2022, when it went mainstream and rapidly accumulated hundreds of millions of users (Yahoo). With an estimated 800 million people using ChatGPT today, most of them on the free tier, the introductio

Google is significantly expanding its AI Overviews feature in Search, making it easier than ever for users worldwide to find relevant...