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Sam Altman told employees on Friday that ChatGPT is back to exceeding 10% monthly growth. The company is preparing to launch an updated Chat model this week. OpenAI has officially begun testing ads within ChatGPT. The company expects ads to make up less than half of its revenue long term. Fundraising talks are expected to heat up over the next two weeks.

The next AirPods Pro will be able to see its surroundings to provide hand gesture recognition and create an enhanced spatial audio experience with the Apple Vision Pro headset. They will be released at the same $249 price as the current model. Apple tends to wait around three years to make major changes to AirPods, so it is unclear whether the company plans to release a new high-end version of the AirPods Pro 3 or a full-fledged AirPods Pro 4. All AirPods announcements so far have been made at Apple's annual iPhone event in September.

SpaceX is pivoting its focus from building a settlement on Mars to building a 'self-growing' city on the Moon. Elon Musk says that a Moon settlement could be achieved in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take more than 20 years. SpaceX was founded with the original goal of settling Mars. However, focusing on the Moon, SpaceX is making a decision that benefits NASA and the US.

China recently released a plan that lays out its priorities for 2026 through 2030 that contains plenty of ambitious goals for the space sector. The country plans to harvest water from space in the not-too-distant future, with the next five years focused on tech demos on things like robot drills and in-orbit processing. China's plans mention building gigawatt-level space digital infrastructure. It also has the beginnings of a new space tourism industry.

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We are moving toward a future where a large amount of production code will never be read by a human. This Write-Only Code future will happen when software production scales beyond human attention. The organizations that will succeed in this transition will be the ones that invest early in new primitives for trust, accountability, and control. Refusing to adapt will ensure adaptation happens accidentally, under pressure, and without intent.

OpenAI and Anthropic both recently unveiled the next iterations of their coding assistants. Benchmarks are getting less and less meaningful as coding assistants get better. Over time, the industry will develop better ways of articulating the differences in agentic models, but for now, people will have to experience them for themselves, or read other people's experiences about them, to track frontier models. Consistent testing and clear articulation will be the only way to monitor the pace of progress in agentic capabilities in the near future.

Amanda Askell is the resident philosopher at Anthropic. She spends her days learning reasoning patterns and talking to the model to build its personality and address misfires. Her role's aim is to endow Claude with a sense of morality. She's training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.

80 million people are now using Reddit search every week after Reddit merged its core search with its AI-powered Reddit Answers. People are now starting and completing searches on the platform without ever touching Google. Reddit is now the most-cited source in AI-generated answers. The company sees AI summaries as an opportunity to move users into Reddit communities, where they can read discussions, ask follow-up questions, and participate.

Google Search revenue growth accelerated every single quarter in 2025.

Stripe has set up frequent tenders since 2024 to let employees sell shares without going public.

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Michael Grimes has rejoined Morgan Stanley as chairman of investment banking after leaving a year ago to take a role leading the Commerce Department's Investment Accelerator.

ChatGPT Free and Go users will start seeing ads based on their topic of conversation, prior chats, and previous interaction with ads.