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🚀 This Weeks Top Stories in AI
🤖 Leak confirms ChatGPT is preparing ads for public roll-out
Internal code from OpenAI’s Android beta shows references to “ads feature,” “search ad,” and “search ads carousel,” indicating the company is testing ads inside ChatGPT.
The rollout would mark a shift from ChatGPT’s previously ad-free experience, making its monetisation strategy more like that of search engines such as Google Search.
Given ChatGPT’s scale — reportedly hundreds of millions of weekly users — introducing ads could reshape the web advertising economy by leveraging richer user data than traditional search engines.
🧠 Neuralink’s First Patient May Get an “Upgrade,” Says Elon Musk
Noland Arbaugh — the first human to receive a Neuralink brain-computer interface (BCI) — could soon be upgraded or even implanted with a second device, according to Elon Musk.
The upgrade aims to “further augment his abilities,” potentially allowing more advanced functions, such as exceptionally fast reaction times for video games — Musk even suggested a future where BCI users might outperform able-bodied humans in reaction-speed tasks.
Arbaugh continues to use his implant (nicknamed “Eve”) in daily life — studying neuroscience, gaming, and speaking publicly — and despite a recent pressure-sore setback, he remains optimistic about a “big update” expected with his two-year mark in early 2026.
🚨 OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as ChatGPT Comes Under Pressure from Gemini 3
Sam Altman has reportedly issued an internal “code red,” redirecting all company resources to urgently improve ChatGPT’s speed, reliability and personalization.
The move follows recent benchmark results showing Google’s Gemini 3 outperforming ChatGPT — prompting concern that ChatGPT is losing ground in the AI-assistant race.
As a result, several planned projects — including ad features, health and shopping agents, and a personal assistant called “Pulse” — are being postponed while the team focuses on strengthening core ChatGPT performance.
📈 Anthropic Reportedly Preparing a Massive IPO by 2026
The company behind the Claude AI — Anthropic — has hired law-firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to begin IPO preparations, with a potential public listing as early as 2026, per recent reports.
Anthropic is simultaneously exploring additional private financing that could push its valuation above $300 billion — up sharply from a $183 billion valuation following a $13 billion Series F round in September 2025.
The IPO, if it happens, could rank among the biggest in history — part of a broader trend where leading AI firms such as Anthropic and its rival OpenAI test investor appetite for high-valuation, fast-growing, but still loss-making AI startups.
🦄 Other Bits
Netflix acquires Warner Brothers Discovery for $83BN
Geoffrey Hinton hints at massive job disruption due to AI
Is AI redefining what it means to be a human child?
🏆Tool of the Week (not sponsored)
Keeping it simple this week. In honour of the greatest PR mechanism in all of tech (Spotify Wrapped). This week’s tool of the week is, you guessed it, Spotify.
“But Rob!!! Spotify’s not an AI tool? Why are you talking about non-AI tools on the World’s best AI newsletter??”
Au contraire my friends. Spotify has long been an AI leader. Long before AI was cool. Back when it was just called Machine Learning.
Did You Know? Some neural networks accidentally develop internal “grid cell” structures—similar to how mammals navigate space—even when they weren’t trained for navigation at all.
Till next time,
