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Financial Times:
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026  —  $500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
Elissa Welle / The Verge:
OpenAI expands its ChatGPT Go tier to the US and the rest of the world, after launching it in India and some other countries; it will cost $8/month in the US  —  'ChatGPT Go' is available worldwide for $8 per month. … OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but says it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers  —  OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT's responses, and that it won't sell user data to advertisers.
Dara Kerr / The Guardian:
The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area  —  Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork available to $20/month Pro subscribers, after launching it for Max users, and says Pro users may hit their usage limits sooner  —  Pro subscribers can have Claude can handle simple tasks on their computer.  —  Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant for taking care …
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM  —  California's attorney general on Friday sent a cease and desist letter to xAI, demanding the company immediately halt the creation …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal  —  In the meantime, it's asking a court to pause remedies meant to restore competition.
Reuters:
Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage  —  Grid operator PJM Interconnection on Friday unveiled a plan to manage surging power demand from data centers that Big Tech needs …
Doug OLaughlin / Fabricated Knowledge:
Claude Code represents a “ChatGPT moment repeated” and an “extinction-level event” for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption  —  The age of PDF is over.  The time of markdown has begun.  Why Memory Hierarchies are the best analogy for how software must change.
Glenn Coin / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US  —  Clay, N.Y. — At the edge of a 1,400-acre tract of swamp, forest and former farmland just north of Syracuse, Micron Technology …

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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
President Trump says Fox News “bears responsibility” for the GOP's losses after “constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse”

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
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