OpenAI's advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company.

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The EU Commission is classifying ChatGPT as a very large search engine under the Digital Services Act for the first time, with at least 45 million monthly EU users. By the end of 2026, OpenAI has to deliver risk assessments, transparency reports, and an ad archive, among other things. Whether the Commission can also demand access to training data is disputed among legal experts.

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OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task. Salesforce, Adobe, and several startups are also moving away from fixed subscription fees. The central dispute stays the same. Who gets credit for the success, the software or the customer?

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According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer agents. Anthropic also relies on Apple hardware. Demand is so high that the most powerful models have been sold out for months. Apple’s Mac revenue rose by nearly 29 percent to $10.4 billion in the June quarter.

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