OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup. The startup is valued at $850 million.

The move to integrate ads into ChatGPT comes as OpenAI looks to increase its revenue amid $1.4 trillion in spending commitments and a possible IPO.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, previously critical of advertising as a revenue source, has announced that ChatGPT will begin incorporating ads. This decision comes as OpenAI faces rising infrastructure costs and fierce competition.

OpenAI overlord Sam Altman is facing shocking allegations that he played a role in the death of a whistleblowing employee — and sexually abused his own sister! The tech wunderkind, 40, is the target of a relentless campaign by the grieving mother of former employee Suchir Balaji,

This week, two Thinking Machines Lab co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, left the startup to rejoin OpenAI. And more defections are reportedly on the way.

OpenAI plans to introduce clearly labeled ads in its ChatGPT Free and Go tiers while keeping user data private and higher-tier subscriptions ad-free.

OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT, which would be a major change from CEO Sam Altman's earlier view that advertising could hurt user trust, as rising AI costs push the company towards new revenue streams.

OpenAI has announced that ads will soon be appearing in ChatGPT for both free users and those who subscribe to the lowest paid tier for the LLM, called ChatGPT Go ($8 a month). A trial run is set to start in the US "in the coming weeks" before ads are rolled out globally.

Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.

OpenAI has reportedly lured three key founding members from Mira Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines, in a significant talent raid. This move, following a contentious departure for one researcher,