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OpenAI says its ad business hit a '$1 billion' run rate. That's one month of revenue, multiplied by twelve.
OpenAI (Dave Dugan, VP of Global Ad Solutions) ·
OpenAI announced its ChatGPT ad business crossed a '$1 billion' annualized run rate in under 200 days, the same day it opened self-serve ad access in Europe.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising operation has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate, just six months after launch.
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Oracle's 10-K supposedly blames AI for 21,000 layoffs. The filing says neither word.
Media coverage summarizing Oracle's FY2026 10-K risk-factor language as a specific AI-layoff figure ·
Coverage summarized Oracle's FY2026 10-K risk-factor language as AI causing 21,000 layoffs, a figure reporters calculated themselves by subtracting two years of headcount.
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Oracle's SEC filing blames AI for 21,000 job cuts.
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Oracle's global workforce fell to 141,000 full-time employees as of 31 May 2026, down from 162,000 a year earlier, a net reduction of roughly 21,000 people.
116 companies warn AI cyberattacks are coming. The letter names no date, no threshold, no funding figure.
OpenAI and 100-plus signatories, including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Mastercard, Visa, and Hugging Face ·
OpenAI and more than 100 companies, several of which sell cyber-defense products, signed a letter warning AI-enabled cyberattacks will scale in 'the coming months.'
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In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable.
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In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable
The EU calls its AI Act delay 'simplification.' The delayed rules are the expensive ones.
European Commission (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744); framing from EVP Henna Virkkunen ·
The European Commission's Digital Omnibus delayed high-risk AI Act obligations (Annex III) from August 2026 to December 2027, a 16-month delay framed as cutting red tape.
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The EU's Digital Omnibus makes targeted amendments to the AI Act, cutting red tape and simplifying EU law to give space for innovation.
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