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📊 Study finds AI increases workload instead of reducing it

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🛒 Amazon explores launching an AI content marketplace

🤖 Alibaba releases RynnBrain to give robots human-like reasoning

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OpenAI has started testing ads in ChatGPT for U.S. users on its Free and $8/month Go tiers, with sponsored content appearing below responses and targeted using conversation context, chat history, memory, and prior ad engagement.

The company says ads will not affect ChatGPT’s answers, but free users who opt out of ads will get fewer daily messages, while advertisers reportedly face a $200K minimum buy-in with major marketing firms already reserving placements.

The move marks a major shift for consumer AI, raising concerns about how advertising could change trust and user experience, even as it helps fund continued free access to advanced AI tools.

Harvard Business Review published an eight-month case study showing that enterprise AI tools did not reduce employee workloads, but instead pushed workers to move faster, cover a wider range of tasks, and work longer hours without explicit direction.

Employees increasingly used AI during meetings, breaks, and even lunch, turning previously idle moments into productive time and effectively extending the workday.

The study found that workers absorbed responsibilities that would have once justified new hires, suggesting AI may intensify work rather than deliver the efficiency gains often promised.

YouTube TV introduced more than 10 lower-priced plans starting this week, all below its $82.99/month main package, letting users pick bundles focused on sports, news, entertainment, or family content.

New options include a $64.99/month Sports plan, $71.99 Sports + News plan, $54.99 Entertainment plan, and a $69.99 News + Entertainment + Family plan, with savings ranging from $11 to $28 per month compared to the full lineup.

The move reflects renewed pressure on live TV streamers to cut costs as consumer confidence hits an 11-year low, with YouTube TV aiming to restore flexibility and affordability while keeping perks like unlimited DVR, multiview, and add-on options.

Amazon is reportedly in talks to launch an AI content marketplace that would let publishers sell their content directly to companies building AI products, according to The Information.

The marketplace would give publishers a new revenue stream by enabling usage-based licensing deals as AI companies seek reliable, authorized training and reference data.

The move follows Microsoft’s recent launch of a similar Publisher Content Marketplace, pointing to a broader industry shift toward structured and paid content licensing for AI.

Alibaba introduced RynnBrain, an open source AI model designed to help robots understand environments, predict object movement, and plan task steps, built on its Qwen3-VL vision language model technology and aimed at real-world spaces like kitchens and factory floors.

The company says RynnBrain outperformed Google’s Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 and Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason2 in benchmark tests, with Alibaba’s DAMO Academy claiming state-of-the-art results across multiple evaluations.

Seven versions of the model are now freely available on GitHub and Hugging Face, a move that supports China’s push to lead in robotics and could accelerate global adoption while challenging Western dominance in AI-driven automation.

A) Yes, very much - 64% 🏆

B) No, they’re accurate - 36%