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ChatGPT is now selling ads inside your chats.

OpenAI switched on ads inside ChatGPT in five more countries, Spotify will badge artists whose identity is generated rather than human, and the Department of Trade and Industry opened an AI center in Makati for local businesses.

01Top Story

ChatGPT ads are live in 5 more countries

OpenAI switched on ads inside ChatGPT for people in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea, on the free and low cost Go plans only, and says it will keep adding countries this year.

why it matters
Paid plans stay clean. On the free one you can hide an ad, or trade ads away for fewer daily messages.
Read at OpenAI
02Spotify

Spotify will badge artists who are not real

Spotify will put an AI Persona badge on artist profiles whose identity is made by a computer instead of a real person, starting next month, and it will keep those songs out of the music it recommends unless you follow the artist yourself.

why it matters
The badge judges who the artist is, not how the song was made.
Read at Spotify
03Philippines

DTI opens an AI center for local business

The Department of Trade and Industry opened an AI and Scale-Up Center at its Makati building with Converge, where local companies and startups can try AI tools, sit in workshops and get help putting them into daily operations.

why it matters
Small firms rarely have the money or the staff for this. Lending both is the whole point.
Read at Daily Guardian
04Anthropic

Claude hides a mark in everything it writes

Anthropic says text from its newest Claude versions now carries an invisible watermark with no setting to switch it off, and the mark travels with the words when they are copied and pasted somewhere else.

why it matters
Paste it into an essay, a report or a caption and the mark goes along with it.
Read at Anthropic
05Free Tools

A free AI now makes video with sound

MiniMax released H3, a video maker that turns one sentence or a single photo into a clip of up to 15 seconds with the audio already in it, free to download and also usable in a browser.

why it matters
Sound is the part free video tools normally leave to you.
Read at Hugging Face

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