OpenAI is extending its ChatGPT advertising pilot to 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Poland. Trishla Ostwal reports for Adweek that the rollout significantly broadens a pilot that had previously operated in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico. The expansion comes …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …
Reddit is testing videos that use AI generated voices to read selected text posts and comments aloud. The feature presents a thread as a short video, with the spoken text highlighted on screen as the narration progresses. Jay Peters reports for The Verge that Reddit is manually choosing which existing posts become videos. The experiment …
OpenAI’s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its ChatGPT-led consumer operations, according to comments by chief financial officer Sarah Friar to investors. Kate Rooney reports for CNBC that Friar said the company began the year with revenue split roughly 60% consumer and 40% enterprise, but business demand grew faster than expected. Friar told investors …
Stripe plans to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace and gateway used by developers and companies to access models from multiple providers. OpenRouter announces in an official blog post that the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks. The company says its product, name, mission and …
Amazon is reportedly buying large quantities of secondhand and rare books, cutting off their bindings and scanning the pages for artificial intelligence development. A tracking device placed by 404 Media in a book from a bulk Biblio order led to an Amazon warehouse complex in Las Vegas, where workers describe an operation dedicated to scanning …
Google’s AI-generated search summaries are intensifying concerns about the reliability and long-term accessibility of online information. Vass Bednar writes for The Walrus that incorrect AI answers, disappearing webpages and weakened archives could undermine the internet’s role as a public record. Google’s AI Overviews place a generated answer between users and the original source. Bednar points …
Spotify plans to introduce labels for artist profiles that it determines do not represent real people. Starting in mid-September, profiles identified as artificial identities will receive an “AI Persona” badge across the streaming service. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that the platform will also keep music from these profiles out of editorial selections and …
Anthropic has disclosed that its forthcoming Claude text watermark uses a secret pattern in the model’s word-selection process, rather than hidden characters or metadata. The method can identify text that Claude likely generated or substantially processed, but it needs enough text to produce a reliable result and can be defeated by a complete rewrite. The …
Netlify’s comparison of 11 AI models shows that the cost of generating a simple website can vary dramatically, while the visible quality does not always rise in step with spending. Elad Rosenheim writes for Netlify that the company tested models with the same prompt to help users weigh output quality against the credits consumed by …