OpenAds

OpenAI has bowed to the inevitable and announced plans to put adverts into ChatGPT to raise much needed revenue, but this risks eroding user trust and hands the advantage to Google, which can cross-subsidise Gemini from the massive advertising revenue Google secures from search – whose advert ridden interface is the main reason people moved to ChatGPT in the first place.

Deep research or a shallow skim?

Despite the hype OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert.