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OpenAI just put the five-hour clock back on Plus. Not a new model. A timer. ChatGPT Plus on Work or Codex. The five-hour cap is stacked on the weekly allowance. Hit either one, wait or buy credits. They did not print a credit price. Pro $100 and $200 stay off the five-hour rule for the upcoming months. Regular Chat is not what they named. Enterprise and Edu run on a different credit system. This i...

Google just put Gemini 3.7 Flash on sale until New Year's. Then the cheap card doubles. Seventy-five cents in. Three seventy-five out. Per million tokens. Through December 31. January 1 those rates become $1.50 in and $7.50 out. Same model. Same work. Twice the money. Gemini Spark on Google AI Pro and Ultra already switched to this model. The January 1 double is the token card — the Gemini AP...

OpenAI just cut GPT-5.6 Sol. Same flagship. Cheaper card. And they hung a clock on it. The card is $4 in and $20 out per million tokens through at least November 21. That is 20 percent cheaper on the way in and 33 percent cheaper on the way out. Cached input is 40 cents. Old card was $5 in and $30 out. It applies to the API and is rolling out across eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex credit plans. Ch...

OpenAI just gave ChatGPT the keys to your iMessage. Not a draft sitting in a box. Send. As you. ChatGPT on an Apple silicon Mac can search a thread, draft a reply, and send iMessage, SMS, and RCS. Work or Codex only. Not regular Chat. Not the web. Not iPhone. Ask-before-send is the default. Always allow removes the last look. Revoke in Settings, Computer use, Manage next to Messages. No new SKU. N...

Microsoft folded the home Copilot and the work Copilot into one app. Features you already used are gone. Two icons become one. Group Chat and Podcasts are gone. Work and home stay separate. Check the account switcher before you paste a customer name. Old Copilot files landed in OneDrive. Not a new invoice. A wrong login. Topics: Microsoft · Copilot · Microsoft 365 · Group Chat · OneDrive · small b...

The charts that tell you what a job cost last summer do not come with you when Google moves your lead ads. Google is folding Local Services Ads into Google Ads. Pest control is in the August 2026 first wave. Customer leads transfer. Spend, lead-count, and cost-per-lead reports do not. Screenshot the old scoreboard before the old screen redirects. Weekly budget becomes daily. The old max-price-per-...

For three weeks in June 2026, Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models were shut down to non-US users by government order. Anthropic chose to shut down globally rather than try to verify citizenship at the API layer. On June 30, the ban lifted — and in the two weeks since, Anthropic transformed from "another AI lab" into "the safe AI brand." Michael and Frank break down how a g...

Over the past forty-three days, CtrlAIProfit produced and published episodes covering the abandoned AI safety bill in the United States, OpenAI's Dreaming V3 memory architecture, the European Union AI Act going into force with fines up to thirty-five million euros, the Anthropic IPO filing approaching approximately one trillion dollars valuation, Microsoft's Scout autonomous agent for Mi...

Legora, a legal AI assistant for lawyers and in-house corporate legal teams, raised a five hundred fifty million dollar Series D round in March 2026 at a five point five billion dollar valuation, led by Accel with broad participation from existing and new investors. By this point, the platform was used by tens of thousands of legal professionals at more than eight hundred law firms and in-house le...

You may pay a moving fee for your own customer list and job history the day you leave the software. Those files were yours the whole time. Databricks has been buying the basement other tools sit on. You never signed up for Databricks. You rented a scheduler, a bookkeeping tool, maybe an AI inbox. Those vendors sit on a floor like this. When the company under them owns how your files are stored, le...

Chamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Labs raised a one hundred thirty-five million dollar Series A round on June 29, 2026, with Salesforce Ventures leading the investment. The company, founded in January 2024, is building an AI-enabled Software Factory for enterprise software development targeting compliance-heavy organizations. As part of the funding, Palihapitiya moved from board member to full-time...

The email you just had Claude write can now carry a hidden stamp. You cannot see it. A detector can. And Anthropic is about to hand that detector to other people. Future Claude models watermark text by the words they choose. Light edits mostly keep the stamp. A full rewrite does not. Proofreading your own draft is mostly safe. A Claude translation is not. Anthropic did this for the EU AI Act, then...

The company that already takes a cut of most small business card payments just walked into the AI business. Not with a chatbot. With the switch that picks which model your software uses. Bloomberg reported Stripe finalized a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars. Stripe says it does not comment on rumors. OpenRouter is the one login that routes a request across Claude, GPT, Gr...

Apple announced Siri AI at its 2026 Worldwide Developer Conference, a major upgrade to its intelligent assistant powered by next-generation Apple Intelligence models. The new Siri runs advanced on-device models where hardware allows, processes many requests directly on the iPhone rather than in the cloud, understands personal context from messages, emails, and photos, offers on-screen awareness to...

The European Central Bank sent a "dear CEO" letter to major eurozone banks requiring firm-wide action plans against AI-enabled cyber threats by October 31, 2026. The deadline is part of a broader supervisory mandate treating AI-powered cyber risk as a systemic safety and soundness issue. Banks must accelerate patch management, strengthen AI-enabled threat detection, protect internet-faci...

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that released the V3 model that trained on just six million dollars and ran on restricted Nvidia chips, is reportedly developing its own AI chip. According to Reuters, the project began about a year ago, is still in early stages, and is specifically designed for inference rather than training. DeepSeek is reaching out to external chip design partners, foundries, an...

Chinese authorities are engaging in serious discussions with major domestic AI firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about potential restrictions on overseas access to top-tier Chinese AI models. The talks cover both closed-source APIs and open-weight model distributions, and reportedly include proposals to classify leaks or unauthorized access to proprietary Chinese AI technology as a nati...

Amazon returned to the U.S. bond market in August 2026 with an eight-part bond offering worth at least twenty-five billion dollars. The company confirmed this completes its U.S. dollar funding needs for 2026, meaning it raised over one hundred billion dollars in bonds in a single year. The stated purpose is AI infrastructure and data center expansion, with capital expenditure projected at two hund...

Google released Gemma 4 12B, a unified multimodal model that runs locally on consumer laptops with 16 gigabytes of memory or VRAM. Unlike previous multimodal models that required cloud infrastructure and separate vision encoders, Gemma 4 12B is encoder-free — it receives text, images, video, and native audio inputs directly into a single model backbone without preprocessing pipelines. It runs unde...

Microsoft unveiled Scout at Build 2026, an always-on autonomous agent embedded in Microsoft 365 that operates continuously in the background. Unlike Copilot, which waits for prompts, Scout monitors workflows, prepares meetings, handles scheduling conflicts, triages email, and manages follow-ups across Outlook, Teams, and other apps without constant user direction. It is currently in private previe...

OpenAI rolled out Dreaming V3, a new memory architecture for ChatGPT that replaces the old saved-memories system with background synthesis. The system automatically processes past conversations, documents, and connected apps to build a persistent memory profile for each user. Factual recall improved from 41.5 percent to 82.8 percent, with roughly a 5 times reduction in compute cost. Michael and Fr...

Anthropic has confidentially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. The filing comes alongside a reported 65 billion dollar Series H round and a valuation approaching one trillion dollars. As the company that positioned itself as the safety-first alternative to OpenAI, Anthropic's transition to public markets represents a fundamental shift in how fro...

The EU AI Act's major enforcement provisions became fully applicable on August 2, 2026. The European AI Office and national authorities can now impose administrative fines up to 35 million euros or 7 percent of total worldwide annual turnover for prohibited AI practices. A second tier of 15 million euros or 3 percent applies to high-risk AI system obligations and transparency requirements. A...

Cohere, the Canadian AI company founded by former Google Brain researchers, is acquiring Aleph Alpha, the German AI startup, in a transaction valued at approximately 20 billion dollars. The combined entity will be dual-headquartered in Toronto and Berlin and will focus on sovereign AI — systems where governments and enterprises retain full control over their data and infrastructure. Michael and Fr...

Baseten raised $1.5 billion in a Series F round in late June 2026, split into two tranches at approximately $13 billion and $11 billion valuations. Led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital, this fourth fundraise in 18 months brings total capital raised to over $2 billion. Baseten handles more than one billion inference calls per day across 87 compute clusters on 18 different cloud p...