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ChatGPT users might notice one noteworthy change in the app and web version soon: ads will start rolling out for select users today.

Yesterday at the Super Bowl, Anthropic aired its “no ads in AI” commercial that is as targeting OpenAI.

Just hours later though, it seems OpenAI plans to still move quickly to implement its rollout plans for ads inside ChatGPT.

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On Monday, OpenAI will officially begin testing ads within ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named due to confidentiality

Apple is rumored to have new AirPods Pro coming this year, and a leaker just corroborated the main new feature we’ve been expecting: built-in cameras.

AirPods Pro 3 just launched last fall, and historically Apple has had three-year gaps between new models.

But rumors indicate this year we’ll see new AirPods Pro debut again—except they won’t be all-new.

Instead, this year’s AirPods Pro are expected to be the same as the current AirPods Pro 3 but with

The new model, called VSSFlow, leverages a creative architecture to generate sounds and speech with a single unified system, with state-of-the-art results. Watch (and hear) some demos below.

Currently, most video-to-sound models (that is, models that are trained to generate sounds from silent videos) aren’t that great at generating speech. Likewise, most text-to-speech models fail at generating non-speech sounds, since they’re designed for a different purpose

Discord has a major change coming to the service as part of its aim to improve teen safety features. Starting in March, all users globally will be required to submit age verification via a face scan or submitted ID, or be given teen-level access restrictions.

Age verification across apps and social platforms has been an increased focus of legislative bodies around the world in the last couple years.

In response, Discord has a major initiative to ensure that only adults see adult-designated content, while teens are restricted to age

Apple made a major U-turn with CarPlay after a decade of not allowing video playback. Starting with iOS 26, Apple technically allows apps to display video through the CarPlay screen while parked.

The capability falls under the name ‘video in the car’ and was first mentioned on for CarPlay:

AirPlay video in the car enables people to watch their favorite videos from iPhone right on their CarPlay display when they aren’t driving. Integrate support for CarPlay with AirPlay video to enable this feature in your car.

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Jony Ive would have done years of work on the design of the Apple Car interior before the project was finally abandoned. While we’ll almost certainly never see those designs, a new electric Ferrari may provide a good clue as to the aesthetic of the interior.

The cockpit of the upcoming Ferrari Luce was designed by Ives’ consultancy Lovefrom, and it likely echoes a number of the elements we could have expected to see in an Apple car …

A couple of tech sites got a walk-through of the design from

It’s previously been suggested that the upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models will allow you to make a more flexible choice of CPU and GPU cores. A recent change to Apple’s website seems to support this theory.

A new report suggests that the change could be even more radical, and that the M5 Pro and M5 Max might be not two distinct chips but rather variants of the same one …

The back story

Things kicked off last year with a report stating that Apple will