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

OpenAI appears poised to accelerate the release of its next major ChatGPT model as the competition in generative AI tightens.  According to reporting cited by multiple outlets, OpenAI plans to unveil GPT 5.2 this week, earlier than its original late December target, after CEO Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” internally in response to Google’s Gemini 3 launch last month (TechBuzz). While OpenAI has not publicly confirmed unreleased product timelines, the company ty

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly exploring an unusually literal way to scale artificial intelligence: putting parts of its computing infrastructure in space.  According to reporting summarized by multiple outlets, Altman has shown interest in building a space oriented business not to pursue Mars colonization, but to support AI data centers that could draw abundant solar energy and potentially reduce the environmental burden that earthbound facilities create (Smith; “Sam A

Google’s latest Android 16 rollout is not just a bundle of new features, it is also a signal that Android updates are changing pace.  Instead of relying on one big release each year, Google says it is moving toward more frequent drops, starting with eligible Pixel devices receiving the first wave beginning Tuesday. The headline additions focus on reducing notification overload and making phones feel more personal, while also expanding safety and accessibility tools across th

Accenture and OpenAI are deepening their relationship in a move that signals how quickly enterprise AI is becoming a standard part of consulting delivery, not just an client offering.  Under the agreement, Accenture plans to equip tens of thousands of its professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise, positioning it as the largest group of workers upskilled through OpenAI Certifications. The idea is straightforward but ambitious: by putting the same tools into daily consulting, oper

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

Micron Technology’s decision to walk away from consumer memory is more than a brand change, it is a clear signal that artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of making chips.  Micron began in 1978 as a small design consultancy founded by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman in Boise, Idaho, backed by local investors including J.R. Simplot. By 1983, the company was already punching above its weight by producing chips roughly half the size o

At AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon Web Services signaled that the next phase of enterprise AI is less about picking a single “best” chatbot model and more about tailoring models to a company’s exact data, language, and use cases.  Coming right after AWS announced Nova Forge, a service for training custom versions of its Nova AI models, the company introduced new features in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI meant to make custom large language model work faster and less

Amazon Web Services is stepping up its push to make AI infrastructure faster, cheaper, and less power hungry with the formal launch of its third generation training chip, Trainium3, unveiled at AWS re:Invent 2025.  The company introduced Trainium3 UltraServer, a full system built around a 3 nanometer Trainium3 chip plus AWS’s in house networking, framing it as a major leap not only for training large AI models but also for running AI applications during peak demand (Bort). I

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new large language model codenamed “Garlic,” a move that signals just how quickly the competitive balance in AI can shift.  According to reporting based on The Information, OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer Mark Chen told colleagues the model has been testing strongly inside the company, especially on coding and reasoning tasks, where it was described as performing well against Google’s Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Opus 4.5. (Bakolia; “OpenAI De

Nvidia is accelerating its push into what it calls physical AI by unveiling new open AI models and developer tools designed to advance autonomous driving and robotics research.  The centerpiece of this launch is Alpamayo R1, an open reasoning vision language model that the company describes as the first action-oriented model tailored specifically for autonomous driving. By combining visual perception with language-based reasoning, Alpamayo R1 allows vehicles to interpret the

The generative AI boom is not only reshaping software and Silicon Valley balance sheets, it is also remaking the job market for the people building the physical backbone of AI.  As tech companies race to expand the data centers that train and run large AI models, construction workers who can help deliver these massive projects are seeing unusually large jumps in pay, along with benefits that were rare in the trades just a few years ago. In many regions, moving into data cent

James Cameron, long celebrated for advancing cinematic technology through groundbreaking visual effects, has drawn a sharp line between the innovations behind his “Avatar” films and the rise of generative artificial intelligence.  In a recent CBS Sunday Morning interview promoting “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the director emphasized that while his movies often appear at the cutting edge of computer-driven filmmaking, the philosophy behind them is fundamentally at odds with curren

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

Live football matches in the UK are entering a new era, thanks to an advanced technology platform that merges artificial intelligence with 5G connectivity to transform the stadium experience.  After years of fans struggling with dropped signals, sluggish mobile data, and unreliable connections at large venues, a series of successful trials at Stadium MK in Milton Keynes has demonstrated that these longstanding frustrations may soon be a thing of the past ( Dig.watch ). Devel

Onton, the AI-powered shopping platform previously known as Deft, is accelerating its mission to simplify online decision-making with a new $7.5 million seed investment.  The funding round, led by Footwork with participation from Liquid 2, Parable Ventures, and 43, brings the company’s total raised capital to roughly $10 million and comes at a time when consumers are increasingly overwhelmed by the complexity of online shopping. With major tech companies like OpenAI, Google,

Alibaba’s newly relaunched Qwen AI app has rapidly become one of the most talked-about developments in the global artificial intelligence landscape, recording more than 10 million downloads within its first week of public beta. The surge marks one of the fastest early adoption curves seen in the consumer AI market, surpassing the initial momentum of tools like ChatGPT, Sora, and DeepSeek (Artificial Intelligence News). The explosive uptake reflects a strategic shift in how m

Researchers at Örebro University have developed two advanced AI models that could significantly improve how dementia is detected, using nothing more than the brain’s natural electrical activity captured through EEG signals.  These models were designed to distinguish between healthy individuals and those with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia, offering new hope for earlier and more accessible diagnosis. By combining temporal convolutional net

Google’s rapid ascent in the AI race is reshaping the dynamics of the tech and semiconductor markets, with its newly released Gemini 3 model emerging as a major catalyst.  The model debuted to enthusiastic reviews, including high praise from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who declared he is “not going back” to ChatGPT after trying it out (Investors Business Daily). Google parent Alphabet’s stock has surged accordingly, rising nearly 5 percent on Monday after an 8 percent ral

Artificial intelligence has advanced to the point where it can already perform work equal to nearly 12% of the U.S. labor market, according to a new set of studies from MIT.  Using a large scale simulation model called the Iceberg Index, researchers created a digital twin of the American workforce by mapping 151 million workers, their occupations, and more than 32,000 skills against what today’s AI tools can already do. The result shows that current systems have the technica