AI News Brief: OpenAI announced it’s testing ads in the free tier of ChatGPT, as one of the funding sources to keep supporting free users. According to the official announcement, ads will be clearly labeled so users can tell what’s an ad versus ChatGPT’s own generated answers, avoiding confusion. OpenAI stressed that ad content won’t influence or interfere with ChatGPT’s actual answers…
AI News Brief: Japanese listed companies posted sharp growth in their April-June quarter earnings, driven mainly by the weak yen and rising AI-related capital spending. The report notes that companies like Murata Manufacturing, Kioxia Holdings, and Fanuc all saw real profit contributions from the AI industry wave, showing that AI investment from US tech companies is benefiting a broad range of Japanese industries. The original summary only covers the overall trend direction and a list of representative companies.
AI News Brief: Anthropic has reportedly struck a roughly $9 billion, 20-year deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms, under which Riot’s Rockdale, Texas campus will supply 191 megawatts (MW) of compute capacity for Anthropic’s AI operations. The news first surfaced in a Riot press release on Monday, which did not name the client, but Bloomberg cited sources confirming the partner is Anthropic; Cointelegraph has reached out to both companies for comment but has not yet received a response.
AI News Brief: Keel Infrastructure announced in its Q2 report that it has fully shut down its US bitcoin mining operations to make way for high-performance computing (HPC) sites. Quarterly revenue came in at $30 million, down 50% year-over-year, driven by lower average bitcoin prices and the shutdown of the Moses Lake mining site in April 2026. Operating losses hit $141 million, a sharp reversal from $11 million in operating profit a year earlier, including $84 million in non-cash depreciation charges.
AI News Brief: Greg Abel, successor to tech-investing giant Warren Buffett, will travel to Japan next month to meet with leaders of the country’s major trading houses for the first time in his role as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. The trip is seen as a major milestone in Berkshire’s longstanding relationship with Japan’s five biggest trading houses (Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui & Co., and Sumitomo Corporation). Once mere trade intermediaries…
AI news brief: this piece doesn’t reveal specific implementation details, so here’s the gist in one line: Japanese tech group NEC has set up a new department made up entirely of AI agents, aiming to boost productivity through a clearer division of labor between humans and AI. The department is structured in two layers — ‘worker’ agents and ‘manager’ agents — where worker agents handle automated tasks and are supervised and coordinated by other AI agents acting as managers, who then…
AI News Flash: Thailand has announced a five-year 0% capital gains tax exemption for crypto investors trading on platforms approved by Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission, running from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, aiming to strengthen Thailand’s position as a regional crypto hub and support its growing crypto digital nomad community. Trades made through unapproved or offshore exchanges still fall under regular personal income tax rates, which can go as high as 3…
AI news brief: this article has no trigger-related skills, so it’s translated directly. Google announced new agentic AI tools for Google Ads and Google Analytics, extending the previously launched in-product AI agent Ask Advisor, helping marketers understand the ‘why’ behind the data faster and act on the ‘how’ more quickly…
AI news brief: OpenAI announced it’s expanding access to its frontier cybersecurity models, letting vetted Daybreak partners use them to deliver authorized, governance-bound cybersecurity services to customers. This is part of OpenAI’s Daybreak program, aimed at opening up its most advanced cybersecurity AI capabilities to trusted third parties for defensive security use cases like vulnerability detection, threat analysis, and security service delivery — while keeping safety and control front and center.
AI news brief: GPT-5.6-Cyber is OpenAI’s dedicated cybersecurity model, available to authorized users through the Daybreak Red platform, targeting three core use cases—vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing. The model is positioned to help legitimate security researchers and red teamers strengthen attack surface analysis and defense validation, as part of OpenAI’s expanding Daybreak lineup of specialized models.