Inside ChatGPT’s Ad Engine: Prompts, Memory and Uploaded Contact Lists

Inside ChatGPT’s Ad Engine: Prompts, Memory and Uploaded Contact Lists

OpenAI’s advertising system inside ChatGPT is not a simple keyword auction. A report published on 15 October, built on two test ad campaigns bought inside the platform, shows that sponsored placements can be matched to accounts using uploaded email addresses, phone numbers or Android advertising IDs — and that outside Europe the system can also … Read more

OpenAI’s Always-On Dots Agents Skip Europe’s ChatGPT Pro Tier

OpenAI’s Always-On Dots Agents Skip Europe’s ChatGPT Pro Tier

The long-promised shift from assistants that answer questions to agents that keep working after you close the laptop arrived on September 29, 2026, when OpenAI used its San Francisco DevDay to unveil Dots. Each dot is a persistent agent running on its own cloud computer, and the first one is included at no extra charge … Read more

Mistral Large 4 ‘Le Chonk’ Hits 1 Trillion Parameters, Weights Land in Weeks

Mistral Large 4 ‘Le Chonk’ Hits 1 Trillion Parameters, Weights Land in Weeks

Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model nicknamed “Le Chonk” — the French lab’s most ambitious bid yet to plant a European flag at the AI frontier, and its loudest argument for open weights. It is live in public preview now, but the full checkpoint stays behind a guarded endpoint, with the … Read more