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OpenAI gives itself default permission to edit ChatGPT ads

OpenAI's creative enhancements can adjust ChatGPT ad headlines and descriptions, resize images, optimize destination URLs and translate ad text, and the ads can run without requiring advertisers to review or approve each version. They will switch on by default for new and existing campaigns on October 29 or 30, 2026, depending on which OpenAI notice you read.

A smartphone showing the ChatGPT app's store listing by OpenAI, with the interface in Azerbaijani

Chandni Melwani · Oct 22, 2026

Research

Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 designs cheaper quantum circuits

Anthropic says Claude Mythos 5, working in a loop with an evaluator program, found more efficient quantum circuits. In seven of eight tasks, including chemistry and optimization, the accompanying paper reports both fewer Toffoli gates and fewer qubits than the baseline it compares each against.

The optical table of QuEra's first-generation neutral-atom quantum computer: lenses, mirrors and mounts bathed in blue light

Chandni Melwani · Global · Oct 22, 2026

Labs

Anthropic is turning away distillers' paying traffic

Anthropic says early evidence suggests its new defences have cut the data harvested by distillers, who covertly extract Claude's capabilities to replicate them in other models, by around 90 to 99%, and that it has turned away meaningful revenue and trillions of tokens' worth of paying traffic from distillers.

A hand holds a phone showing a folder labelled AI with app icons for ChatGPT, Mistral AI, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Poe, with a cup of coffee blurred in the background

Chandni Melwani · Global · Oct 21, 2026

Jobs

Anthropic reports juniors fell to 9% of its technical hires

Anthropic's October 16, 2026 report on its own workforce says junior employees' share of its technical departments slipped from 21% to 14% since early 2025. It says the proportion of junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9% as hours worked by AI agents rapidly expanded relative to employees'.

Two men shake hands in a wood-panelled lobby with booth seating and an indoor tree, during UK Science Secretary Peter Kyle's visit to Anthropic in San Francisco in October 2024

Chandni Melwani · US · Oct 21, 2026

Money

FAA seeks part-ownership of its AI vendor, Politico reports

The FAA is working to acquire an ownership stake in Air Space Intelligence, the startup behind its AI-supported SMART air traffic tool, according to an internal FAA document Politico reviewed. It's unclear whether any final deal is imminent, Politico said. On October 13, 23 House Democrats asked the GAO to audit the FAA's rollout of SMART and a related system.

Air traffic controllers at radar screens in the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center, beneath a row of sector maps

Chandni Melwani · US · Oct 21, 2026

Capital

Japan to fund a GlobalFoundries-run chip fab in New York

GlobalFoundries will run two new chip fabs at its Malta, New York, site under a US-Japan initiative providing up to $21 billion, with Japan providing the investment. GF is majority-owned by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, and in a separate agreement the US Commerce Department will receive about 4% of its equity.

Aerial view of GlobalFoundries' Fab 1 chip plant in Dresden, Germany: large white and teal factory buildings surrounded by car parks and fields

Chandni Melwani · US · Oct 21, 2026

Platform Updates

Meta edits “train” out of its US crawl clause

From October 30, 2026, Meta's Commercial Terms authorize it to crawl pages associated with the products or services of businesses using Meta commercially. Meta cut “train” from the US text on October 16; legal experts told Nieman Lab the wording is still broad.

A woman on a phone call works at a laptop in a clothing shop, with folded jeans and boots on the shelves and bags around her

Chandni Melwani · Oct 20, 2026