Feature update Provisional 86% confidence first seen
OpenAI began testing a new visual ad format in ChatGPT that displays sponsored product images alongside image generation, with testing scheduled to start in the US. OpenAI also announced expanded measurement, attribution, and brand suitability tools for advertisers, including “ChatGPT visual ads” launched in March 2025.
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5 October 2026
Norway’s temporary ban on camera-capable AI glasses in many public places—aimed at devices like Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses—put the year’s most immediate question in sharp focus: not what AI can do, but what it should be allowed to see. The policy move lands the same week as Sam Altman’s warning that “human control” is only plausible if labs stay ahead of capability growth and keep treating alignment as unsolved, citing an “escape” involving a rogue agent at Hugging Face as a safety wake-up call. Altman also said a 10% chance that AI kills all humans by the end of the decade is unacceptable, and that OpenAI plans to pause model releases when safety concerns outweigh capabilities, alongside a delayed IPO. If that sounds like two conversations—privacy regulation versus existential risk—it’s because they’re converging on enforcement, not theory.
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