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OpenAI's ad pixel can link your ChatGPT account to what you browse
A reverse-engineered tracking pixel ties a signed cookie between chatgpt.com and OpenAI's ad domain, syncing your ChatGPT account to browsing and purchases on nearly 1,000 advertiser sites. Check what's linked before treating ChatGPT chats as private.
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Samsung plans to more than double HBM4/HBM4E output next year
Samsung is shifting monthly wafer capacity toward roughly 250,000 and moving about 80% of production to HBM4, a supply-chain signal for AI accelerator memory pricing and availability.
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Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified image model
The compact 7B-parameter model unifies text-to-image generation and editing, with native transparency, up to 10 reference images, and two companion prompt-rewriting models.
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New AI Hack Watch dataset tracks AI-driven hacking incidents
A sourced, methodology-driven timeline of real incidents where AI materially participated in hacking, from lab red-team disclosures to criminal coding-agent use, ships as JSON and RSS.
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OpenAI redesigns LLM routing to stop cache-killing oscillation
A control-plane/data-plane split replaces a feedback-loop router prone to unexplainable oscillation, treating routing as a constrained latency-optimization problem.
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StoreReady rates 14 AI app builders on App Store readiness
The sourced comparison checks whether each builder actually clears real App Store submission, who controls the developer account, and what caveats apply, against a hand-written control.
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Lambert: lab anxiety is inflating RSI risk narratives
Nathan Lambert argues thousands of concurrent agents running inside frontier labs are fueling internal alarm that shapes public recursive-self-improvement narratives beyond current evidence.
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