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OpenAI scraps for-profit structure, but keeps door open for investments

OpenAIs new structure opens for more investors, but keeps ideological nonprofit in charge. (Image: Justin Jay Wang + DALL·E, for OpenAI)

OpenAI is not changing to a for-profit company after all, they revealed last night. Instead, they are making minor adjustments to the corporate structure to welcome more investment.

This means changing the structure of it’s operational, for profit Limited Liability Company (LLC) to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that will be controlled by it’s non-profit entity intended to «ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,» OpenAI writes in a blog post.

A Public Benefit Corporation is a profit-based company that legally commits to both profit and purpose — like «advancing AI for all» — and must consider that mission alongside shareholder value. It also has to publish a yearly «public benefit» report. It’s essentially a mission-specific corporate vehicle.

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Judge in Meta’s copyright case questions fair use defense

A judge finds scant evidence for fair use by Meta. (Picture: Jeroen van Luin, CC BY 2.0)

In a hearing for summary judgment in the case where a group of authors sued Meta for copyright infringement, the judge seemed to side with the authors, but also said they needed to make a clearer case of actual harm, writes Ars Technica.

The case revolves around whether AI companies like Meta can use copyrighted works in the training of their models, which they claim is fair use, while the authors seek damages and compensation for the fact that they copied all of their work without authorization.

The case could upend the entire AI market, and Meta fears it would make them less competitive should they lose.

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Clarifying Apple’s tariff exposure

When Apple’s Tim Cook said tariffs would cost $900 million this quarter, it brought on some confusion. Weren’t Apple devices exempted, after all?

With the 145% tariffs imposed on goods imported from China, Apple was facing steep cost increases and would likely have had to drastically increase prices on its product offerings.

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Google’s AdSense experimenting with AI chatbots

Google's Adsense is expanding into "converstional ai." — The era of free AI chats may be coming to an end, with google experimenting with ads. (Picture: Google)

The internet display ad behemoth is moving with the times, as the AI industry seeks to monetize. It’s likely only a question of time before we get ads in Gemini.

AdSense apparently began experimenting with ads for AI chatbots, or, as they call it «conversational AI,» in chatbots iAsk and Liner, according to Bloomberg, which is paywalled.

Just a test?
SEO roundtable quotes Bloomberg as saying that AdSense had «expanded to include conversations with chatbots operated by AI startups.»

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Wikipedia to use AI — to augment editors, not content

Ai on wikipedia? To automate "tedious tasks," not for writing. — The Wikimedia foundation sees use for AI in translating articles. (Picture: Wikimedia)

The recent strategy on AI use at Wikipedia primarily focuses on making the editing and writing process easier by automating «tedious tasks.» And they won’t use AI to produce content, with one major caveat.

— The community of volunteers behind Wikipedia is the most important and unique element of Wikipedia’s success, the document begins.

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Big Tech embraces AI coding, hitting 30% of software

Major big tech businesses are doing substantial amounts of AI coding. — Gemini 2.5 Pro opens even more avenues for coding, says Alphabet. They are taking that to heart. (Picture: Google)

With Satya Nadella’s announcement overnight that Microsoft uses AI to code around 30% of their software, AI coding has come of age. Other Big Tech companies have also reported similar numbers lately.

— I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a conversation at LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference, according to CNBC

Microsoft says they have made progress with Python, and less with C++ projects, but he is still pointing that some projects could be entirely written by AI.

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Meta AIs new Llama 4 app has access to Facebook, Instagram

Meta AIs standalone app has access to your Facebook and Insta, and will let you share prompts with friends. — Meta AIs standalone will also let you share prompts with friends. (Picture: Meta)

Meta’s Llama 4 might just be the largest AI deployment in the world, having rolled out across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Now it’s getting its own standalone app.

Meta’s blog post touts the potential of linking it with your other Meta accounts so it can get to know you better, and says the app will remember things about you that you explicitly ask it to retain — or information you already shared on Facebook, for example.

This is slightly off what ChatGPT offers outside the EU, where the app will add all previous chats to its «memory.» The memory feature in Meta AI is also not available in the EU, limiting this service to the USA and Canada for now.

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ChatGPT debuts shopping and product reviews

Chatgpt’s new shopping panels will look familiar to those who use Google for shopping. (Picture: OpenAI)

As the AI app crosses 1 billion searches per week, they are now making it easier to shop and look for reviews on the platform, in what could be the first steps towards monetization.

The new feature will produce «improved product results» and show product cards with images and prices, pulling product reviews from sites like professional publishers and forums like reddit, and often presenting reviews with star ratings, writes The Verge.

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Microsoft: 81% of SMBs see 2025 as pivotal year for AI at work

Microsoft says AI will upend the workplace, and it will happen sooner than you think. (Picture: Joe McKendry/Microsoft)

People are overworked and under pressure to produce ever more, Microsoft’s new «2025 Work Trend Index» report finds.

Enter AI agents to alleviate the press, they say, and 79 % of leaders concur. Most are now planning to use AI to boost productivity within the next 12 to 18 months.

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No, an AI is not running that radio show in Australia

This person is not real, it’s an ai presenter for an afternoon radio show in Australia. (Picture: www.cada.com.au)

Anyone with even basic understanding about radio production and modern AI capabilities knows that’s simply not true.

The story doing the rounds this week is that an ai «bot» called Thy is running a four hour radio show on Australias CADA channel. It’s hit the mainstream press and is reported by The Verge, The Independent and The Sydney Morning Herald, to name few.

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Google’s Gemini reaches 350 million monthly users

Gemeni's users have skyrocketed from last year. — Gemeni’s users have skyrocketed from last year. (Picture: Google)

Google showed off an internal slide of monthly active users for its Gemini AI models, hitting a strong benchmark as of March 2025.

The same slide showed daily traffic was at 35 million active users.

Impressive growth
That signals an exponential growth from around 10 million monthly active users from late last year, reports Ars Technica.

It also shows the reach that’s been possible by defaulting to Gemini over Assistant on Android phones and the strength of offering 2.5 Pro to free users just a short while ago. Gemini is also the default assistant on Galaxy phones

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OpenAI expects positive cash flow, $125 billion in sales by 2029

OpenAI predicts astronomical revenue by the end of the decade. (Picture: Conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0)

ChatGPT use is up to about «something like 10% of the world» said CEO Sam Altman, putting the numbers reached at roughly 800 million people, according to Pymnts.com, but that won’t be the main driver of income in coming years.

The company said in March that it anticipates revenue above $11.6 billion in 2025 – nearly tripling its 2024 numbers. It will then jump from $125B in 2029 to $174B in 2030.

Revenue will rise significantly once it can develop and charge for AI agents, and «free user monetization,» according to Slashdot.

What that «monetization» will entail is unclear so far, but Pymnts.com says they have considered things such as charging affiliate fees on links, giving it a cut of sales generated from the platform.

According to this post on r/singularity, they are not currently considering considering selling traditional advertising, but that references a December FT.com article and may well have changed.

Read more at paywalled The Information, a writeup on Pymnts.com, March 16. report on Reuters and discussion on r/singularity.

Google paying «enormous sums» for Gemini on Samsung phones

Google is using financial muscle to gain market share with Samsung users. (Picture: Google)

As the antitrust remedy trial against Google continues, Google’s vice president of platforms and device partnerships, Peter Fitzgerald said in court on Monday that Googles payments started in January, after Google was found in breach of antitrust laws for paying Apple and others for placements of search products.

The two year deal included monthly payments and a share of ad revenue, writes The Verge.

The aim of the deal is to give Gemini the pride of being the default AI assistant og Galaxy phones, which sell a ton worldwide.

Should Google loose the trial, which is only for remedies after earlier being found guilty of a monopoly in advertising, they would be forbidden from deals like these, will have to sell Chrome, and open search data to licensing deals.

Read more at The Verge, at 9to5Google and a paywalled Bloomberg.

Tariffs could cost Meta $7 billion in advertising loss

Meta stands to lose big on China revenue. (Picture: www.shopcatalog.com, CC BY 2.0)

Analysts at MoffettNathanson have published a new research report that notes Metas total China revenue was $18.35 billion last year — or 11% of its total sales, according to CNBC.

Should the China tariffs stay in place, they are likely to influence the ad buying of fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu, which are some of the biggest advertisers on Facebook and Instagram.

— While Meta does not provide a country-level breakdown of revenue within Europe, we logically can presume that China is Meta’s second-largest revenue source after the United States — a remarkable position for a country where Meta has no users or active platforms, say the analysts in the report, according no CNBC.

If a feared recession should also hit this year, it could wipe $23 billion in revenue off balance sheet for Facebook — a 25% decrease.

Advertising is usually the first thing businesses cut in a downturn, hitting consumer facing businesses hard, and especially news and the media.

Read more at CNBC

OpenAI interested in buying Chrome

Google could be forced to sell Chrome, and Openai is interested in buying it. — Google be forced to slll Chrome, and Openai is interested in buying it.

If the the prosecution prevails in the current USA vs Google antitrust case, they could be forced to divest the most popular browser on the planet.

Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT head of product, Nick Turley, said in open court that they «would be interested» in buying it, according to Reuters.

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