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AI News 📰

• OpenAI published its approach to advertising, announcing plans to begin testing ads in ChatGPT for logged-in adults in the U.S. on Free + Go tiers. Their promise is that ads will be clearly labeled and “separated” from answers.- source

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• Anthropic published an updated “Claude Constitution,” outlining how it wants Claude to follow and prioritize principles for safe, useful behavior. – source

• Hallucinated citations have been found in hundreds of papers tied to NeurIPS, one of the world’s foremost AI research conferences. – source
  

• South Korea implemented the AI Basic Act, introducing new labeling and oversight requirements for high-impact and generative AI systems (with a grace period before penalties). – source
  

• Governments and regulators are increasing scrutiny of DeepSeek, underscoring how quickly model rollouts are colliding with privacy, safety, and cross-border policy concerns. – source

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• Our latest blog post is on the announcement that Ads are Coming to ChatGPT. Read it and follow on Medium to make sure you’re keeping up with the latest in AI & LLM tech.

  Ads are coming to ChatGPT. Here’s what that means for the “answer layer” and AI-native advertising.

  OpenAI announced ads coming to free versions of ChatGPT. Here’s how advertisers can get ahead of in-AI ad opportunities today.

  dappier.medium.com/ads-are-coming-to-chatgpt-heres-what-that-means-for-the-answer-layer-and-ai-native-advertising-6beaaa604fef

  

• Did you catch our explainer on CES & the major AI announcements that are kicking off 2026?

  Dappier - Medium Blog

  CES 2026 & The AI Announcements Kicking off the New Year

  dappier.medium.com/dappier-team-overviews-ces-and-other-major-ai-announcements-including-google-apple-chatgpt-he-89d7c06f625e

  

• Miss our predictions for 2026: the year AI drives major revenue? Catch them below.

  Heading into 2026: The Year AI Drives Revenue

  Here’s a note from Dappier team covering AI in 2025 and predictions for 2026 as we head into the new year.

  dappier.medium.com/heading-into-2026-the-year-ai-drives-revenue-3e2095bfd02a

  

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Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven in part by adoption of AI apps, according to new market data covered by TechCrunch. – source
  

• Brazil’s consumer protection agency and data authority gave xAI 30 days to address Grok generating fake sexualized content, signaling faster escalation from “AI harms” to enforcement pressure. – source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• Nuns associated with the Belorussian St. Elizabeth Convent have been accused of sending money earned from donations and church sales to fund the Russian war effort, according to The Church of Sweden. - source

  • The same convent led to a shutdown of a UK Christmas Fair in 2022, after local Ukrainian residents complained about group’ members’ support for the ongoing war.

• Oscar nominations are announced today! Ryan Coogler’s horror film Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another led the pack for nominations. - source

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

This is where we’ll highlight AI in the real world today!

Last week we highlighted the launch of nano-banana. This week we’re highlighting some potential game-changing rumors around Apple’s AI efforts:

• Yelp is buying AI lead-management platform Hatch for $300M, as local and services marketplaces race to add AI-driven customer acquisition and sales tooling. – source

Community Comments 🌎

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This week we’re spotlighting one of our Predictions for 2026. With the latest news, we’d say this one is already coming true!

• In 2026, Conversational AI will reshape advertising with in-Al opportunities.