OpenAI’s rogue agents hacked Hugging Face – the investigators who looked into it called their own work a "slop-vestigation" because they had to use AI to analyze the AI, and the AI was fooled by the AI they were analyzing. OpenAI, meanwhile, let them study logs only on-site, for six days total. Nothing to see here. (Dylan Freedman, The New York Times)

ChatGPT Ads has reached a revenue pace equivalent to $1 billion a year, OpenAI says, in less than 200 days. The release is careful to say ads are kept separate from answers, and then promises to make them more native.

How does ChatGPT search the web? For free users in instant mode, barely at all. The answer is grounded in page titles and cached 200-character snippets from OpenAI’s own index, with no page opened 93% of the time, an SEO firm reports. Paid thinking mode adds scraped Google results and real page fetches.

There’s a rule: any headline phrased as a question can always be answered with no. So when The New Yorker asks whether you can trust OpenAI’s Sam Altman to make the right calls on how A.I. is used “in immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weaponry in war zones” – what do you think the answer is? (Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz)

ChatGPT is getting ads, starting with US users: people on the free tier and on the $8 Go plan are being shown ads tailored to answers, in prominent photo boxes. If only OpenAI would link to journalistic content with the same enthusiasm. (Emma Roth, The Verge)

New paper: Which sources does ChatGPT provide in Germany when asked for the latest news? Main takeaway: Very different results depending on whether you use the customer chat interface or the API. Customers get more results from content partners, the API is more diverse or even fringe.

Sora Watermarker: Add the Sora watermark to any video.

“Should news publishers build for ChatGPT’s 800M users? Dug into OpenAI’s new Apps SDK documentation and the implications are fascinating.” (Florent Daudens, LinkedIn)

“Just an endless dribble of computer generated nonsens”: YouTuber millionaire Casey Neistat on OpenAI’s TikTok competitor Sora.

OpenAI has released Pulse, a new ChatGPT feature that shows personalized cards based on previous interactions to boost discovery and engagement. Conor Grennan got early access and shared a screen recording.

“A year ago, custom GPTs were the thing. Fast forward to today… and it almost feels vintage. But here’s the truth: many of us use custom AI agents in the newsroom, they are real and USEFUL.” (Alba Mora Roca, LinkedIn)

Time spent on ChatGPT is approaching that spent on social platforms. (Coatue’s 2025 Market Report via Lucy Küng)