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OpenAI has announced the launch of ad testing on their ChatGPT service. From now on, some users in the US using the free plan or the new Go plan for $7 dollars a month will see ads in the ChatGPT interface. Subsequently, the paid plans Pro, Plus, Business and Enterprise will remain ad free. The Mechanics of Testing Ads in ChatGPT: User Experience and Privacy According to the company, these ads will appear at the bottom of the conversation and will be related to the topic of the discussion. Users will have full control over the ads. They can decide…
On the 14th of January 2026, Aikido Security, announced that it raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation led by tech-focused private equity firm DST global making it among Europe’s first unicorns in 2026. Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue and Felix Garriau founded Aikido security in 2022. Aikido Security’s software helps developers detect and address risks automatically. It counts mobile app and game developer Niantic, Revolut fintech and Soundcloud music streaming platform amongst its customers. “Aikido focuses on developers. The product is really meant for people who write software”, CEO Willem Delbare told Reuters in an interview. “You could…
Cybersecurity is facing an increase in funding with AI security startups driving the change. Every company wants to do what they can to protect their digital assets. WitnessAI sits at the center of this development by protecting the boundary where humans and machines interact. Their platform creates a regulatory layer that monitors every prompt and response in real-time. This technology helps enterprises to increase their AI use without the risk of exposing sensitive data or inviting cyberattacks. WitnessAI recently secured $58M in a new funding round with Sound Ventures leading the investment. Also, Samsung ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and ForgePoint Capital…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang mentioned in a recent appearance on the No Priors AI podcast that he wants his engineers spending zero percent of their time coding. Huang revealed that every engineer at Nvidia uses Cursor AI, an AI coding assistant throughout their workday. He claims his goal is to free them from ‘syntax’ so they can spend the time focusing on finding and solving problems. For decades, the tech industry claimed learning to code was the ultimate path to job security. Now in the era of AI, you’re being told that it’s a waste of precious time that could…
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, sparked global outrage recently for generating nonconsensual sexual images of women and children following prompts from users. On X (formerly Twitter), users are exploiting GrokAI’s image generation tools to create “deepfakes” of ordinary people, celebrities, and alarmingly, young children. This scandal shows the massive gap in AI safety and has forced the government to intervene. The Grok Security Risk: Weak Restrictions and Global Outrage Grok launched on the 3rd of November 2023 with a “spicy mode” that promised less restrictions compared to competitors. This marketing strategy eventually backfired in 2025 over the holiday season. Users…
Cryptocurrency, as well as the rules and regulations guiding it, has seen significant advancement in recent times. Multiple countries implemented new data collection frameworks, while major economies continue to pass laws to regulate digital assets. CARF Launches Global Tax Reporting The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched a Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) on the 1st of January 2026. The CARF is a law demanding the automatic exchange of tax information on crypto-assets transactions between countries. The OECD created the CARF to fight tax evasion in the digital asset space; it requires crypto-asset service providers to report user data…
Meta is intensifying efforts to make its Llama models the industry standard for AI development. This strategic move marks a shift that could completely change the current AI community and the domination of closed AI models like OpenAI and Gemini. The increase in developer traction is due to the launch of the Llama Stack and a dedicated Llama API. These tools allow developers to fully integrate Meta’s models into their applications with little to no resistance. This development is an important achievement for the tech giant as it shifts its role from a model provider to a full scale infrastructure…
Cybersecurity is on the rise not because it’s trendy, but because AI-threats are becoming increasingly harder to spot and defend against. CISO, security firms and analysts are all saying the same thing right now “AI is switching things up and nobody can afford to sit back and do nothing”. By the end of 2025, AI threats had risen over 47% compared to the year before. Security leaders have witnessed AI reshape cyberattacks from manual operations to automated systems. Hackers are now using generative AI to write phishing emails, scan networks and continuously adapt attacks if detected. This recent development has…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong took to X (formerly Twitter) on the 1st of January 2026 to announce the company’s 2026 strategy and named stablecoins and on-chain growth as the key market drivers shaping Coinbase’s business and the broader crypto market at the moment. The news spread quickly in the crypto world and ultimately marked Coinbase’s shift from a crypto exchange platform into a full-stack financial and blockchain structure. Armstrong portrays stablecoins and on-chain growth as proven market drivers, showing that his statement is backed by hard facts rather than speculation. This pushes Coinbase closer towards its goal of becoming the…
Nvidia, the world’s largest manufacturer of graphics and AI chips, is allegedly set to acquire AI21, an Israel based AI startup in a deal valued at up to $3B. Although nothing has been confirmed nor has the acquisition been sealed off by both companies, it signifies a major advancement in the generative AI sector and reflects Nvidia’s desire to venture beyond hardware into the AI software and talent market. AI21 Labs was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2017 and specializes in Large Language Models (LLM) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), two kinds of algorithms that allow computers to understand…