You might remember Runway as the lab behind AIFF — the AI film festival, where part of the prizes was generation tokens in their app.
They are framing their new release as a David v. Goliath moment, where «a team that fits onto two school buses» outperforms trillion dollar companies on the Artificial Analysis Text to Video Leaderboard.
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This is often known as the Dead Internet Theory, or the Great Enshittification, caused by tonnes of low cost, low effort AI-created internet content.
Enter this new plugin, Slop Evader, which can take control of searches on Google, Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange and Pinterest, and set responses to only show content from before November 30, 2022.
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It was launched «expecting a small research audience,» OpenAI’s Nick Turley says on x.com, but «within hours, the usage was far beyond anything we’d prepared for.»
Launch page is still live
On the preserved introduction page at OpenAI, it says «we are presenting ChatGPT, and look forward to feedback from users to learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of the model.»
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Tibor Blaho discovered the changes in the beta app for Android while doing routine versioning work for his job at AIPRM.com, which integrates tightly with ChatGPT.
He also likes to «share what is coming next with people who care about ChatGPT and Claude news.»
The new code indicates an ads «bazaar,» and a «SearchAd» with a «SearchAdsCarousel.»
Presumably, ads would begin rolling out on the free version of ChatGPT, where it could pay for offering more features. Or there could be affiliate marketing in the shopping links they just announced.
Google is already rolling out ads on their AI products, and Copilot and Perplexity have started using ads on shopping and follow-up-questions, notes Blaho.
Read more: Tibor Blaho’s x.com post, Bleeping Computer, discussion on r/Singularity.
Google has long been signaling their intent to start experimenting with ads in AI outputs, and thinks some relevant ads might be sufficient.
These ads can appear above, beneath and within the results, Google says. And adds:
— For ads to show within the AI Overviews, the ads must additionally be relevant to the content of the AI Overviews.
For Google’s AI Mode, they are still «testing» and have been running with select ads since May, 2025, writes Engadget.
To match you with relevant ads, or even glean some kind of intent from your query, Google uses AI, and then relies on its deep catalog of advertisers to find a match.
Read more: Brodie Clark’s discovery tweet, Search Engine Land, Engadget, Google on ads in AI Overviews.
They go on to say that AI may «provide services and generate ideas, but they remain tools used by the human inventor who conceived the claimed invention.»
Therefore, AI itself can’t be considered an inventor under current U.S. laws, the document says.
In a departure from Biden administration policies, where AI could be considered a co-inventor, the patent office now says «there is no separate or modified standard for AI-assisted inventions.»
That should mean that using AI to concieve of an invention means the user gets the patent, as with any other tool. This has yet to be tested in U.S. courts, Reuters reports.
Read more: The patent notice, writeups by Reuters, Engadget.
— It makes no sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in nearly all future production.
He went on to say that the only place where labeling makes sense is for art exhibits and content licensing marketplaces «where buyers need to understand the rights situation.»
Stores like Steam and Itch.io have been allowing games made with AI since January 2024, Games Industry Biz writes, but they require developers to disclose its use.
They further write that, as of July 2025, about seven percent of games on the Steam store use AI in some way, compared to just one percent in the previous year.
Read more: context at Eurogamer.net, PC Gamer and Games Industry Biz.
Not content with taking over 30% of coding work, this new survey simulates interactions between 151 million workers across the USA and how they are affected by AI.
The survey initially finds that role shifts in tech, computing and information technology amounts to 2.2% of wage expenditures, but when you add in support functions like human resources, logistics, finance and administration the number grows significantly.
The survey is not meant to predict exactly whose jobs will go, but to give a snapshot for policymakers about what AI already can do — today, not tomorrow.
The total number for this 11.7% workforce reduction is a reduced wage bill of $1.2 trillion.
Read more: get the full, detailed story on CNBC. See also: tag/work.
This season is the first where AI use is prevalent, and while it might seem to offer easy guides, real recipe writers are sounding the alarm that AI slop is often just plain wrong — and sometimes also dangerous.
In practice, human expert recipe bloggers have seen their traffic drop from 40 to 80% on their Thanksgiving recipes — at a time when you should probably double check your information, and your common sense.
So, when Google’s AI overview tells you to bake a cake at three to four hours on 160°C, it is probably time to touch grass — or maybe the charcoal that would ensue.
Read more: Original reporting by Bloomberg, summary by Gizmodo.
This lets you create custom characters of friends or yourself and re-use your «Cameo» in different settings.
Not so fast, said the makers of the real «Cameo,» which sells custom-made celebrity videos or greetings. This is their whole business model, and they promptly sued to get their name back.
Now, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee has granted a temporary restraining order on the use of the word by OpenAI — inside the app and elsewhere — until a hearing can be held on whether or not the ban should be made permanent on December 22.
The deal with Suno will allow «new fan experiences» for artists who have «opted in» and will see Suno making a lot of changes to receive licensing for the music.
Starting in 2026 with a new model, free users won’t be able to download their music from the site, and paid users can increase their downloads for more payment.
— AI becomes pro-artist when it adheres to our principles: committing to licensed models, reflecting the value of music on and off platform, and providing artists and songwriters with an opt-in for the use of their name, image, likeness, voice and compositions in new AI songs, said Robert Kyncl, CEO of WMG.
Read more: WMG’s press release, Suno’s community comment, writeups by The Verge and Music Business Worldwide.
Under the deal being discussed, Meta would start renting compute on Google’s Tensor Processing Units as early as next year, Reuters reports.
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They are looking to make a device that’s «simple and playful,» The Verge reports, and it is rumored to be screen-free and about the size of a smartphone, they say.
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For simple shopping questions and when you already kind of know what you want, normal ChatGPT is excellent at finding it.
But when you are unsure and want more depth, the new ChatGPT shopping assistant clicks in with more granular depth from qthe uestions you may have, and presents you with rich visuals and comparisons.
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It scores 80.9% in SWE-bench Verified, the preferred benchmark for coding lately. Gemini 3 has 76.2% in this bench, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max registers at 77.9%.
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