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Matthias Bastian
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Feb 9, 2026
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Read full article about: ChatGPT now shows ads to free and Go users, with opt-out cutting daily message limits

OpenAI is rolling out ads in ChatGPT for users in the United States. The test targets logged-in adult users on the free and "Go" tiers. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans remain ad-free. Free-tier users can opt out of advertising, but doing so reduces their daily message allowance.

OpenAI says the decision comes down to high infrastructure costs. The company stresses that ads don't influence ChatGPT's responses, and conversations stay private. Which ad a user sees depends on the conversation topic, previous chats, and interactions.

Users under 18 won't see any ads, and ads won't appear around sensitive topics like health or politics. Users can hide individual ads, delete their ad data, and adjust personalization settings. Advertisers get aggregated performance statistics but have no access to chat logs or personal data, OpenAI says.

What will always remain true: ChatGPT’s answers remain independent and unbiased, conversations stay private, and people keep meaningful control over their experience.

Putting ads in chatbots is controversial, since the potential for manipulation is greater than with traditional search engines. OpenAI says it will keep ads clearly separated from content. Long term, the company plans to roll out additional ad formats.

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Matthias Bastian
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Feb 9, 2026
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Read full article about: OpenAI says ChatGPT is growing again, plans new model this week

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in an internal Slack message that ChatGPT is once again growing by more than ten percent per month, CNBC reports. The last official number was 800 million weekly users in January 2026.

Altman also said an updated chat model for ChatGPT is set to ship this week. It could be the chat variant of GPT 5.3, which OpenAI released last week as the coding-focused version Codex. The model scores particularly well on agent coding benchmarks and is 25 percent faster, according to OpenAI.

The Codex coding product has grown roughly 50 percent in just one week, according to Altman, who called the growth "insane." It competes directly with Anthropic's popular Claude Code. OpenAI's new Codex desktop app in particular is likely to expand gradually beyond coding use cases, following a similar path to Anthropic's Cowork.

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Feb 9, 2026
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Read full article about: Investors believe AI will replace labor costs instead of just software

Investors are betting that AI will replace labor costs, not software budgets.

"We took a view that AI is not 'enterprise' software in the traditional sense of going after IT budgets: it captures labour spend, at some point you’re taking over human workflows end to end," Sebastian Duesterhoeft, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, told the Financial Times.

This logic underpins the current funding round valuing Anthropic at $350 billion: While classic SaaS solutions compete for limited IT budgets, "agentic AI" systems target the far larger pool of labor costs.

The explosive nature of this shift has already been felt in the markets. A series of developments—including new models, specialized industry tools, and news that Goldman Sachs plans to automate banking roles—collectively helped trigger a sell-off in public markets for traditional software stocks. According to the FT, investors are increasingly realizing that autonomous AI agents could threaten existing business models.

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Feb 8, 2026
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Best multimodal models still can't crack 50 percent on basic visual entity recognition

A new benchmark called WorldVQA tests whether multimodal AI models actually recognize what they see or just make it up. Even the best performer, Gemini 3 Pro, tops out at 47.4 percent when asked for specific details like exact species or product names instead of generic labels. Worse, the models are convinced they’re right even when they’re wrong.

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Matthias Bastian
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Feb 8, 2026
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Read full article about: Claude Opus 4.6 takes the top spot on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but OpenAI's Codex 5.3 looms

Claude Opus 4.6 is the new top-ranked AI model, at least until Artificial Analysis finishes benchmarking OpenAI's Codex 5.3, which will likely pull ahead in coding. Anthropic's latest model leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a composite of ten tests covering coding, agent tasks, and scientific reasoning, with first-place finishes in agent-based work tasks, terminal coding, and physics research problems.

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Running the complete test suite costs $2,486, more than the $2,304 required for GPT-5.2 at maximum reasoning performance. Opus 4.6 consumed roughly 58 million output tokens, twice as many as Opus 4.5 but significantly fewer than GPT-5.2's 130 million. The higher total price comes down to Anthropic's token pricing of $5 and $25 per million input and output tokens, respectively.

Opus 4.6 is available through the Claude.ai apps and via Anthropic's API, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock, and Microsoft Azure.

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