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Today’s Highlights:
📢 OpenAI Begins Testing Ads in ChatGPT
🚀 Claude Opus 4.6 Is Here
💰 Anthropic Closes In on a $20B Mega Round
🤖 OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex
🏭 Apollo and xAI Close In on $34B AI Chip Manufacturing Deal
📈 Databricks Surpasses $5.4B Run-Rate
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OpenAI has started experimenting with ads inside ChatGPT, signaling a major shift in how the company plans to monetize its most popular product while keeping free access alive.
The Details:
Ads are being tested in the U.S. for Free users and the new ChatGPT Go plan ($8/month).
Sponsored content appears at the bottom of responses and is clearly labeled.
OpenAI says ads do not influence answers and user chats are not sold to advertisers.
Users can dismiss ads, see why an ad was shown, and turn off ad personalization.
Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers remain ad-free.
Why it matters:
ChatGPT now sits at massive scale, and ads give OpenAI a way to fund rising infrastructure costs without forcing everyone into paid plans. But this also redraws the line between AI assistants and ad-driven platforms, raising new questions about trust, neutrality, and how AI products will make money long-term.
ANTHROPIC
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Anthropic has kicked off the year with a major upgrade to its flagship model, pushing Claude further into real, sustained professional work rather than quick one-off tasks.
The Details:
Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s most advanced model yet, with stronger coding, planning, debugging, and long-running task performance.
It builds on late-2025 releases (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku 4.5) and is the company’s first big launch of 2026.
The model performs better in large codebases, document-heavy research, and financial analysis.
Opus 4.6 now tops the Finance Agent benchmark, which tests real-world analyst workflows.
It’s available via claude.ai, Anthropic’s API, and major cloud platforms.
Why it matters:
Anthropic is positioning Claude as more than a chatbot. With Opus 4.6, the company is leaning into what it calls “vibe working” — handing AI meaningful chunks of real work and trusting it to execute. As enterprise customers already make up most of Anthropic’s business, this release raises the bar for AI as a true productivity layer, not just an assistant.
ANTHROPIC
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Anthropic is about to double down on scale, speed, and compute as investor appetite for frontier AI shows no signs of slowing.
The Details:
Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20B at a $350B valuation, according to Bloomberg.
The round is twice the size originally planned, fueled by intense investor interest and rising compute costs.
Major firms expected to participate include Altimeter, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Menlo, Coatue, Iconiq, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, with Nvidia and Microsoft contributing most of the capital.
Anthropic raised $13B just five months ago, highlighting how quickly frontier labs are returning to the market.
Momentum comes from strong adoption of Anthropic’s coding agents and new legal and business research models, which recently rattled public data-company stocks.
Why it matters:
This round shows how capital-intensive the AI arms race has become. Anthropic is stacking resources to stay competitive with OpenAI and others as IPO chatter grows louder across the sector. The message is clear: scale, speed, and compute are now prerequisites, not advantages.
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MORE AI & TECH NEWS
OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.3-Codex, its latest model tailored for high-level software engineering. With advanced reasoning and performance, it scores 56.8% on SWE-Bench Pro and 77.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. The model runs 25% faster on agentic workflows and is already integrated into Cursor, Copilot, and VS Code for developers.
Elon Musk’s xAI and Apollo Global Management are reportedly finalizing a $34 billion funding deal to boost AI chip production, according to The Information. The mega-deal signals escalating demand for custom hardware to fuel next-gen AI models, with Musk aiming to secure infrastructure that could rival Nvidia’s dominance.
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