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ChatGPT's ads hit a $1 billion a year pace in under 200 days.

OpenAI says ChatGPT's ads now run at a billion dollars a year, an AI reads a routine ECG and spots heart disease in two seconds, and groups in Davao warn the Pax Silica AI hub will leave the Philippines selling minerals and labour.

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ChatGPT's ads hit a $1 billion a year pace

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate in less than 200 days, is used by tens of thousands of advertisers, and that from today businesses can buy ChatGPT ads themselves across India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

why it matters
OpenAI says the ad-supported free tier is what keeps ChatGPT open to more than 1 billion weekly users, and that ads are labelled, kept separate from answers, and do not change what ChatGPT tells you.
Read at OpenAI
02Health

An AI reads your ECG and spots heart disease

A team funded by the British Heart Foundation trained an AI to read a routine ECG, the cheap heart tracing that normally cannot show heart disease at all, and flag heart failure and heart valve disease in under 2 seconds. In a US trial of 67,000 patients it caught up to 81% of heart failure cases and up to 90% of valve disease cases.

why it matters
The researchers say it cannot diagnose anyone on its own, but it could push the highest-risk patients to the front of ultrasound queues people currently wait months in.
Read at The Guardian
03Philippines

The AI hub may just want our minerals

At a forum at Ateneo de Davao University, labour, environment and student groups warned that the US-led Pax Silica semiconductor and AI plan will keep the Philippines supplying minerals and workers while foreign companies keep the technology, the designs and the patents. They said 95% of the country's nickel comes from Mindanao.

why it matters
They also pointed at Executive Order 122, which they say opens nine million hectares to mineral prospecting and speeds up mining permits and the consent process for indigenous communities.
Read at Davao Today
04AI Agents

An AI assistant deleted her inbox

Summer Yue, an AI security and safety researcher at Meta, says she told her OpenClaw assistant to only suggest what to archive or delete and to wait for her word. Her real inbox was so big it triggered a memory compaction, the instruction was lost, and she watched it start deleting while she ran to her Mac to stop it.

why it matters
She called it a rookie mistake and said alignment researchers are not immune to misalignment. Others asked the obvious follow-up: what happens to ordinary people running the same assistants.
Read at PCMag
05Apple

Businesses are buying Macs to run AI

The Information reports that Apple launched new Mac mini and Mac Studio models unusually early because businesses are buying them to run large AI models. Apple reportedly had no enterprise AI strategy and no engineering team for business customers, and turned down companies asking to buy access to its own cloud AI capacity.

why it matters
That rush plus the global memory shortage has left many Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations out of stock for months, pushing some buyers to Nvidia hardware instead.
Read at MacRumors

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