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OpenAI tests visual ads and adds measurement tools.

On Oct. 5, OpenAI announced a new visual ad format in ChatGPT. Testing begins in the U.S. with a small group of advertisers.

Ads appear inside image generation, are labeled and do not influence answers. OpenAI says ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion people weekly.

OpenAI adds Hightouch, Tealium and LiveRamp integrations. It pilots brand-safety checks with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science. Incrementality work is early.

On October 2, Meta open-sourced the ESP32 firmware and Linux development kits for Muse Gadgets under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling developers to connect low-cost boards or Raspberry Pis to the Muse AI agent.

Previously confined to software chatbot interactions, this update allows Muse to control displays, sensors, and actuators, and even access local HTTP API devices via home network tunnels. Official documentation explicitly warns: community pairing lacks manufacturer verification, tokens are embedded in firmware, and tinkering may result in bricking or voided warranties.

Meta also launched the finished device Muse Home Link, a USB-C powered small gateway for connecting smart home devices like TVs and speakers. According to product lead Nat Friedman, the first batch of approximately 5,000 units is being distributed for free to US Muse subscribers, one per person, on a first-come-first-served basis.

Several major South Korean banks have reported customer data leaks from peripheral business systems, and the Financial Services Commission has launched an IT inspection across the entire financial industry.

Shinhan Bank's loan-agent inquiry system was attacked for three consecutive days from September 28, with data on 25,729 customers possibly exposed. KB Kookmin Bank said its staff mobile support system lost data on 119 customers, Hana Bank's sales support system involved 89, and BNK Busan Bank found on October 1 that personal data of 11 outsourced developers had leaked. None of the systems were core banking systems, but all had externally facing entry points.

FSC Secretary-General Shin Jin-chang called on banks to strengthen vulnerability checks on externally exposed systems, tighten authentication and access control, and share threat intelligence for a joint response. Some in Korea's cybersecurity community suspect attackers may have used AI agents to automate the attacks; the attacker's identity and methods remain unconfirmed.

The Hong Kong SAR Government has officially introduced a four-step "AI talent ladder" strategy to mitigate the impact of artificial intelligence on entry-level employment.

Kevin Choi Kit-ming, Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, stated at the Global Youth Powerhouse Summit that the "entry-level shock" is real, as AI performs well in many routine tasks that once constituted graduates' first jobs, such as basic coding and first-line customer service.

The government views AI as a "catalyst, not a threat," aiming to enhance overall digital literacy at a "population scale" rather than shielding young people from the technology. The strategy is designed to guide emerging professionals from foundational literacy to industry leadership.

According to TechRadar, cybersecurity provider Decodo's latest research reveals that ChatGPT and Perplexity have entered the global top five most-scraped websites for the first time.

The analysis indicates ChatGPT accounted for 14% of observed activity, ranking third, while Perplexity accounted for 10%, ranking fifth. TikTok remains at the top with 18%.

Decodo CEO Vaidotas Juknys stated this marks a fundamental shift in data collection use cases: moving from scraping the web two years ago to see what people were searching for, to now scraping AI platforms to see what people are being told.

This conclusion is based on Decodo's own data analysis, which does not disclose sample size or methodology details, and represents a vendor's unilateral statement.

The system prompt for OpenAI's active code model, GPT-6 Sol Codex, has reportedly been leaked, with approximately 294,000 characters now public on GitHub.

According to IT Home, user @elder_plinius claims to have extracted the complete instruction set. The leaked content includes a strict ban list for "AI slop" words (such as delve, leverage) and mandates the use of ripgrep over grep for text searching.

The document also details long-context management strategies, such as using notes tools to save progress when token budgets are exhausted, and requires status updates every 60 seconds during tool execution. OpenAI has not officially commented on the leak, so its authenticity remains unverified.

Cohere North 2 adds token caps.

Its North Admin console tracks token use by user and agent, with tiers and alerts.

SiliconANGLE said Cohere framed this as a cost fix; no independent data.

Iterate.ai launched Lifeboat, an inference engine claiming to support 2,048 concurrent AI agent sessions on a single Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPU.

The engine boosts effective capacity by two to six times through key-value cache optimization and fair scheduling. It addresses memory overflow in long-context tasks by loading only necessary experts from mixture-of-experts models while keeping weights at full precision.

Each session runs in an isolated security capsule with hardware attestation for confidential computing. A free developer license is available, with the top-tier Confidential Computing edition priced at $499.99 per month.

Cohere and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced a global alliance on October 5, launching first in Canada.

The partnership combines Cohere’s North agentic platform, enterprise models, and retrieval capabilities with PwC’s expertise in risk, regulation, and technology transformation. The goal is to help organizations identify high-value use cases and securely connect AI to trusted enterprise data.

The collaboration supports private cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments to meet strict data sovereignty requirements in sectors like finance and public sector. No specific financial terms or initial client names were disclosed.

Safeworld, founded by Dr. Ding Zhao of Carnegie Mellon University's Safe AI lab, has emerged from stealth with a seed round exceeding $12 million.

Led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, the company addresses the unpredictability of generative AI-controlled robots. It builds simulation environments populated with realistic digital humans to test edge cases at scale before physical deployment.

While traditional algorithms are predictable, GenAI-driven robots pose new safety challenges in unstructured environments. Safeworld offers third-party validation to help manufacturers prove system safety and build trust. Early partners include Gritt Robotics.

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an open-weight language model using a mixture-of-experts architecture with 78 billion total parameters and approximately 3 billion active per token.

German accounts for 21.3% of the training data, and the model was trained on 768 B200 GPUs in Germany and Finland. The company states it complies with the EU AI Act and targets public administration, aviation, and industry sectors.

Weights are available under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. Aleph Alpha reports a 71% score on German benchmarks and claims Pareto-optimal quality-cost performance, though these results remain vendor-self-reported and unverified by independent parties.

Huawei and Qualcomm announced on October 5 that they have entered into a broad, multi-year patent license agreement.

The deal includes cross-licensing of patent portfolios in areas such as 5G, computing, artificial intelligence, and networking. Additionally, Qualcomm will acquire certain US patents from Huawei in these fields.

Executives from both companies stated the agreement validates their respective innovations and foundational R&D contributions. Alan Fan, Huawei’s Chief IP Officer, noted it confirms Huawei's leading position in mobile communications.

The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. This follows a similar Wi-Fi patent cross-license agreement signed between Huawei and HP in August.