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OpenAI Tests Ads in ChatGPT Amid Financial Pressure

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OpenAI is internally testing advertisements within ChatGPT, with code references to "search ad" and "search ad carousels" discovered in the Android app beta version, likely limiting ads to the search experience initially.

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OrigoOrigo
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The Good Times Are over, Chatgpt Gets Ads

The first evidence from his mobile app has emerged.

·Budapest, Hungary
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Eldiario.esEldiario.es
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Three Years of Chatgpt: the Machine that Couldn't Take Your Job Away Now Goes for Your Secrets

Sam Altman, for whom advertising was OpenAI's "last resort," opens the door to insert ads into ChatGPT based on users' personal data in the face of problems with corporate businessOpenAI has committed to spending 1.3 billion on AI without profit: where will the money come from? Three years ago, the world held its breath. A company that few then knew outside the specialized circles, OpenAI, launched a product that could pass Turing's test, the te…

·Spain
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MashableMashable
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ChatGPT might be serving you ads soon, leak suggests

Leaked code from the ChatGPT Android app suggests OpenAI may soon introduce ads to the free version of ChatGPT.

·United States
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digitalinformationworld.comdigitalinformationworld.com
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OpenAI’s Changing Tune: Why Sam Altman No Longer Sees Ads as the Enemy

Once resistant to advertising, Sam Altman now sees it as OpenAI’s path toward sustainability amid soaring AI costs.

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BleepingComputerBleepingComputer
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Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.

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DigidayDigiday
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From hatred to hiring: OpenAI's advertising change of heart

In less than a year, OpenAI execs have stopped the scorn and instead embraced the advertising world. We trace each tentative step.

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The Verge broke the news in United States on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
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