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OpenAI announced it will begin showing advertisements to users of ChatGPT's Free and Go subscription plans in India, starting with roughly 50 brands via partnerships with ad agencies WPP and Omnicom. The company plans to launch a self-serve ad manager next month, requiring a minimum daily budget of about ₹725 ($7.60) for marketers to run campaigns.
Bentley let Ars Technica ride in a camouflaged prototype of the Torcal, its debut battery-electric model, shorter than the Bentayga but similarly spacious inside. The SUV shares underlying engineering with the Porsche Cayenne EV and targets roughly 300 miles of EPA range with 400 kW DC fast-charging, producing over 850 PS and more than 1,000 Nm of torque.
Nvidia shares jumped over 7% in premarket trading after strong revenue guidance calmed investor worries about slowing AI spending. CFO Colette Kress projected 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, while CEO Jensen Huang said actual demand exceeds that figure but supply constraints are limiting sales. The rally spread across the chip sector, lifting Micron, Marvell, Arm, Intel, AMD and cloud infrastructure firms Nebius and CoreWeave.
Companies are consuming AI tokens at explosive rates, with Google processing over 3.2 quadrillion tokens monthly—seven times last year's volume—while Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by April. Industry voices are proposing nutrition-label-style disclosures that let employees compare a prompt's computational cost against its actual value before using it.
A new report highlights that executives at several S&P 500 companies, including Walmart, DoorDash, and Target, continue to receive large compensation packages even as many of their employees face financial hardship. The findings point to a widening gap between CEO pay and worker wages at firms often categorized as low-wage employers.
Nation-state hacking groups linked to Russia have shifted their phishing campaigns away from email and toward messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp to target European Union officials. In response, EU governments are reportedly working to move away from these popular consumer messaging platforms for sensitive communications.
Leaked images shared by Weibo user Peter show what appears to be an engineering prototype of the Xiaomi 18 Fold, a book-style folding phone with a camera island resembling the rumored iPhone Ultra design. The device reportedly comes in a dark cherry color, echoing speculation about one of the iPhone 18 Pro's colorways.
Android Authority surveyed over 2,000 readers asking whether they would pay to unlock newer AI features on their older Pixel phones. More than 82% called such a purchase a waste of money, while roughly 10% said they'd rather buy a new phone outright, and just 6.8% would pay a subscription to extend their current device's life.
WIRED's updated posture buying guide adds honorable mentions: the $199 Etalon Posture Bra, which uses six adjustable straps to spread support across the back and shoulders and doubles as a sturdy sports bra, and the $70 BackEmbrace brace, a split-strap design that pulls shoulders back and offers lumbar support. The guide also recommends the $65 Branch Adjustable Laptop Stand as a desk ergonomics accessory to complement posture-focused gear.
The Australian Federal Police arrested two men, aged 21 and 23, from Western Australia over their alleged roles in TeamPCP, a group accused of running the longest-running spree of software supply chain attacks. TeamPCP is said to have poisoned hundreds of open-source packages using a self-propagating worm called Shai-Hulud, stealing developer credentials to spread malicious code further. KrebsOnSecurity reports it had identified the 21-year-old suspect months earlier and had been in contact with a person claiming to speak for the group.
Leaked AMD website documents shared by tipster InstLatX64 show upcoming Zen 6 desktop chips (Olympic Ridge) and some Medusa APUs listed under the AM5 platform, meaning current AM5 motherboard owners could upgrade without switching boards. A separate Medusa lineup will be exclusive to AMD's mobile FP10 socket.
Some Samsung Galaxy Watch users, including owners of the Watch Ultra, Watch Ultra 2 and Watch 6 Classic, report their smartwatches fail to boot after a routine time zone update asks them to restart. Placing the watch on its charging puck has proven to revive it, according to reports from affected users and SamMobile's own testing.