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Labeled pilot launches first native ad channel in ChatGPT: brands operate conversational agents that continue the conversation after an ad click.
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Labeled pilot launches first native ad channel in ChatGPT: brands operate conversational agents that continue the conversation after an ad click.

New default policy applies to free customers and new sites: bots combining search, training, and agents are blocked on any ad-monetized page.

Apple released iOS 27 on Monday with AI Siri from Google Gemini, mandatory English waitlist, barred in the EU and China.

Specific Labs' new benchmark tests code agents on licensed private corpora. No frontier model exceeds 40%, with a drop of over 42 points against SWE-Bench Pro.

Allianz cuts 1,800 in call centers, Mizuho eliminates 5,000 clerical jobs, Ergo reduces 1,000 positions in Germany. Meta asks ICs to return to management roles.

Workgroups from the three companies have met since July to establish shared safety benchmarks, transparency protocols, and external auditing.

After reallocating 7,000 engineers to Applied AI and facing morale issues, Meta allows return to original roles; Zuckerberg acknowledges mistakes and rules out more cuts in 2026.

OpenAI released the Agents API on September 10, featuring a managed sandbox and no extra charges beyond consumption. Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, and Oracle are environment partners.

DeepSeek announced V4.1 Flash on September 10, with 552B MoE, 1M context tokens, and automatic routing to Flash from Pro starting September 14.

Google secured a 22-year PPA with Fortum for half of Loviisa's output and announced a €13 billion AI infrastructure initiative in Finland, its largest European investment to date.
Announcement in Shanghai places Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon on the board of the PyTorch Foundation with Ant Group as Gold, a coordinated move by China's biggest names in AI within the framework born at Meta.

The consulting firm confirmed on September 7th the hiring of 1,500 new graduates in the US, scaling the Frontier team to 15,000 and doubling the Synapse initiative target from 1 million to 2 million. Ravi Kumar S. refers to the model as player coaches.