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In today's Techpresso:
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💥 OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT 💰 Elon Musk seeks $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft 🔍 Google appeals US search monopoly ruling 💾 RAM shortage now affects GPUs SSDs and hard drives ✈️ Musk and Ryanair CEO clash over Starlink pricing 🎁 + 16 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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💥 OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT
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- OpenAI announced it will start testing advertisements in ChatGPT over the coming weeks, marking a major step toward a new revenue source for the AI company as it faces huge infrastructure spending commitments.
- Ads will appear at the bottom of ChatGPT's answers for adult free users and Go subscribers in the U.S., while Plus, Pro and Enterprise plans will remain ad-free according to the company.
- OpenAI said ads will be clearly labeled, will not influence ChatGPT's responses, and the company will "never" sell user data to advertisers, with no ads shown to users under 18.
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💰 Elon Musk seeks $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft
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- Elon Musk's legal team is asking for $79 billion to $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming he was defrauded after investing $38 million in seed funding for the company.
- Newly released documents show OpenAI founders, including Musk, discussed adding a for-profit component as early as 2017, with Musk writing they must "not lose moral high ground" during any transition.
- OpenAI says the lawsuit is "unserious" and claims negotiations failed because Musk wanted complete control and majority ownership, not because of disagreements over the company going commercial.
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🔍 Google appeals US search monopoly ruling
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- Google filed an appeal on Friday against the federal court ruling from 2024 that found the company had built an illegal monopoly in internet search and related advertising markets.
- The company argues that the ruling ignored how people choose Google freely and failed to consider competition from established players and well-funded start-ups in the search market.
- Google is also asking to pause remedies that require sharing raw search interaction data and ending long-term default search deals like its agreement with Apple.
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💾 RAM shortage now affects GPUs SSDs and hard drives
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- A RAM shortage driven by Big Tech's AI demand is now spreading beyond memory kits to affect GPUs, SSDs, and hard drives, becoming the PC industry's biggest story for 2026 and beyond.
- Asus accidentally announced it was discontinuing its GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, though the company later tried to walk back the statement, signaling how the memory crunch is hitting graphics card production.
- GPU makers face pressure to stop building the $749 RTX 5070 Ti because it uses the same 16GB of GDDR7 RAM as the $999 RTX 5080, making the pricier card more profitable.
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✈️ Musk and Ryanair CEO clash over Starlink pricing
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- Elon Musk and Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary traded insults on social media after O'Leary said his airline would not add Starlink internet to flights because of fuel costs and low passenger demand.
- O'Leary told Reuters that adding an antenna to planes creates a 2% fuel penalty from weight and drag, and most passengers won't pay for WiFi on short one-hour flights.
- Musk called O'Leary "misinformed" and later an "utter idiot," while Starlink's engineering VP claimed their antenna only adds 0.3% fuel use compared to older, bulkier options.
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ChatGPT Go is Now Available Worldwide, But Free and Go Users Will Soon See Ads
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Tesla investigates whether its self-driving technology caused thousands of traffic violations
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Chinese EVs inch closer to the US as Canada slashes tariffs
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YouTube relaxes monetization guidelines for some controversial topics
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Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases
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Chinese AI developers explore renting Nvidia’s Rubin GPU in the cloud — cost, complexity, and regulatory hurdles could limit deployments
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Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
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OpenAI wants its API format to become the industry standard
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Behind Perplexity’s bid for Chrome
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Terence Tao says GPT-5.2 Pro cracked an Erdős problem, but warns the win says more about speed than difficulty
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xAI posts job for accounting tutor to train Grok on tax issues
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The Palantirization of everything
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EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
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Wall Street gives up on Adobe as it becomes poster child of AI distruption fears
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🧰 Trending tools
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1Code: a multi-agent coding platform that runs parallel AI agents autonomously, eliminating the babysitting needed when managing multiple coding tasks simultaneously.
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Boom video for Mac: a streamlined recording and streaming app that lets you create polished presentations and tutorials with pro layouts and scene switching, eliminating post-production editing.
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Sled: a voice interface for local coding agents that lets you provide input from your phone while away from your desk via Tailscale.
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Dewdrop: a bookmark management tool that surfaces forgotten saved content through intelligent reminders, helping you actually revisit and use your curated articles instead of hoarding them.
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Chessmaster AI: adaptive chess opponent that automatically adjusts difficulty based on your skill level, ensuring consistent challenge as you improve from beginner to expert.
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Multi-Agentic Systems Analysis: examines why multi-agent AI systems fail to effectively convert data into actionable outcomes in production environments.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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AI learns from real-world outcomes instead of labels: researchers trained models using future events as automatic supervision, eliminating need for expensive human labeling in applications like fraud detection.
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Philosophers argue AI lacks consciousness: the analysis concludes current large language models cannot be conscious because they lack necessary biological and experiential foundations.
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