OpenAI has started testing ads inside ChatGPT for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers in the United States, the company said. The Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education tiers remain ad-free. Ads are matched to users based on conversation topics, past chats, and prior ad interactions, and appear clearly labeled as "sponsored" and visually separated from ChatGPT's organic responses.

OpenAI says the ads do not influence ChatGPT's answers, and advertisers receive only aggregate performance data like view and click counts rather than access to individual conversations. Users under 18 do not see ads, and ads are excluded from sensitive topics such as health, mental health, and politics. Free-tier users can opt out of ads in exchange for fewer daily messages.

Further reading: Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think'.

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Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures.

The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost about $20,000 in API fees. Each instance operated inside its own Docker container, independently claiming tasks via lock files and pushing completed code to a shared Git repository. No orchestration agent directed traffic. The compiler achieved a 99% pass rate on the GCC torture test suite and can compile major open source projects including PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, FFmpeg and Doom. But it lacks a 16-bit x86 backend and calls out to GCC for that step, its assembler and linker remain buggy, and it produces less efficient code than GCC running with all optimizations disabled.

Carlini also invested significant effort building test harnesses and feedback systems to keep the agents productive, and the model hit a practical ceiling at around 100,000 lines as bug fixes and new features frequently broke existing functionality.

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The romance genre -- long the publishing industry's earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases -- has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon, produced more than 200 AI-assisted romance novels last year and self-published them on Amazon, where they collectively sold around 50,000 copies. She found Anthropic's Claude delivered the most elegant prose but was terrible at sexy banter; other programs like Grok and NovelAI wrote graphic scenes that felt rushed and mechanical. Chatbots struggled broadly to build the slow-burn sexual tension romance readers crave, she said.

A BookBub survey of more than 1,200 authors found roughly a third were using generative AI for plotting, outlining, or writing, and the majority did not disclose this to readers. Romance accounts for more than 20% of all adult fiction print sales, according to Circana BookScan, and the genre's reliance on familiar tropes and narrative formulas makes it especially susceptible to AI disruption.

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Fernando Alonso has described getting hold of an Adrian Newey-designed F1 car for the first time in his career as a “very proud moment”, with the Honda-powered Aston Martin AMR26 being officially presented to the world.

Aston Martin have become the final F1 team to host their launch event for 2026.

Aston Martin have given fans a first glimpse of the livery that will feature on the AMR26.

TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course

Let's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.…

And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details

Healthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.…

Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult

Don't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII – just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. …

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag, na een aarzelende start, hoger geëindigd. Vooral technologieaandelen hadden de opgaande lijn weer te pakken, na het stevige herstel op vrijdag. Toen gingen chipbedrijven hard omhoog nadat grote Amerikaanse techconcerns forse investeringen in AI-datacentra hadden aangekondigd.

De S&P 500-index, met de 500 grootste beursbedrijven van de Verenigde Staten, steeg 0,5 procent tot 6964,82 punten. Techbeurs Nasdaq won 0,9 procent op 23.238,67 punten. De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde een fractie hoger. De index van de dertig grootste Amerikaanse bedrijven won vrijdag 2,5 procent en sloot voor het eerst boven de 50.000 punten.

Beleggers zijn in afwachting van het Amerikaanse banenrapport. De publicatie daarvan werd vorige week uitgesteld door de kortstondige sluiting van de Amerikaanse overheid. Het rapport komt nu woensdag. Aan het einde van de week komen ook nieuwe inflatiegegevens naar buiten. Beide cijfers spelen een belangrijke rol bij het rentebesluit van de Federal Reserve.

MILAAN (ANP) - Jutta Leerdam voelde de tranen opkomen nadat ze op de Olympische Spelen in Milaan de 1000 meter had gewonnen. "Je werkt ergens naartoe en dan is dat klaar en dan heb je ook nog die medaille om je nek. Dat is een superbijzonder moment", zei ze terwijl ze met haar gouden medaille om veel media te woord stond.

De 27-jarige schaatsster vindt dat ze aan zichzelf heeft bewezen dat ze mentaal ijzersterk is. "Ik denk dat ik nog nooit zo veel druk heb gevoeld. Maar onder druk gaat het wel beter."

Leerdam zag kort voordat ze zelf moest rijden dat landgenote Femke Kok met 1.12,59 een ijzersterke tijd had gereden. "Misschien dat dat zelfs iets minder druk gaf. Als dat de snelste tijd is en ik kan niet harder, dan is dat wat het is. Het enige wat ik kon doen is goed schaatsen en dat heeft geresulteerd in iets supermoois", zei ze over haar winnende tijd van 1.12,31.

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Haar coach Kosta Poltavets sprak van een kunstwerkje. Zelf vond Leerdam het in ieder geval haar beste 1000 meter ooit, al zaten er volgens haar nog een paar foutjes in. "Het is wel bijzonder. Hij zei tegen mij: 1.12 in Milaan. Ik dacht eerst: ik weet helemaal niet hoe snel het hier is. En dan rij ik 1.12,31. Hij geloofde in mij en ik in hem. Dat heeft goed uitgepakt."

Leerdam zag dat haar tijd groen was toen ze over de finishlijn kwam en ze dus sneller was dan Kok. "Dat was zo onbeschrijfelijk. Ik kon het even niet geloven. Een paar minuten later realiseerde ik het me, maar het moet ook nog bezinken."

Veel verder in de toekomst wilde Leerdam enkele uren na haar gouden medaille nog niet kijken. "Daar ben ik nog even niet mee bezig. Eerst even beseffen dat ik olympisch kampioen ben en ik heb ook nog een 500 meter."

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PM survives day of high tension after Scots Labour leader Anas Sarwar urges him to step down amid Peter Mandelson row

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Keir Starmer has seen off an immediate challenge to his position from Labour’s leader in Scotland, telling his MPs he was “not prepared to walk away” from power and plunge the country into chaos.

But the prime minister emerged badly damaged from a tumultuous 24 hours which brought his premiership to the brink, leaving his party united for now but fearful of what the coming days and weeks will bring.

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Airlines from as far away as Russia, China and Spain have also been affected as island nation warns of fuel shortage

Air Canada has cancelled all flights to Cuba after the island’s authorities said they were running out of aviation fuel, as a consequence of the US oil blockade on the Caribbean country.

The airline, one of a dozen who serve the island, said it would begin repatriating 3,000 customers. Cuba’s beaches are a major holiday draw for Canadian tourists in winter, and one of the government’s most important sources of hard currency.

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