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• OpenAI is officially preparing to test ads in ChatGPT.
• The move comes as the AI company looks to increase revenue amid $1.4 trillion in spending commitments in the coming years.
• CEO Sam Altman once portrayed ads as "a last resort" business model for the company before softening his stance.

Netflix famously backtracked on its stance

As we predicted, the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs - not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and not from AMD.

But if you dig deep, AMD said two things at this year's show that are worthy of attention. Did you catch that the company's about to make

X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.

That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The

Although X removed Grok’s ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone Grok app is another story. It reportedly continues to produce “nudified” deepfakes of real people. And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok

• TikTok has rolled out a new micro drama app in the US and Brazil called PineDrama.
• The app's feed looks a lot like TikTok's, but just contains videos from mini drama series.
• The company has been experimenting in the category via a "Minis" section in its main app.

TikTok is making a fresh bet in one of the most promising new media categories: micro dramas.

The company has

• The Trump administration is leaning on a major power grid operator to bring down prices.
• That includes calling for a new power auction.
• It comes as Trump has pushed for tech companies to "pay their own way" on data centers.

The AI data center boom is driving up

• A European arms maker flew what the Royal Navy called "the UK's first truly autonomous full-size helicopter."
• Leonardo's Proteus demonstrator has completed its maiden flight.
• The move comes after Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky unveiled an uncrewed Black Hawk.

A new uncrewed helicopter design from European

• Yesim Saydan uses over 17 custom GPTs to run her solo-consultancy business.
• She created her ideal team of employees and mentors, including an AI agent inspired by Steve Jobs.
• Saydan worries about the negative impact AI could have, but has learned to embrace it.

This as-told-to essay is based on a

Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and minifigures. It was unexpected and delightful to see Lego come up with a way to modernize its bricks without the need for apps, screens or AI. 

So I was a little surprised this week when the Lego Education group announced its latest initiative is the Computer