AI: Better, Faster, Stronger… Or Just Working Harder?

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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So, have you hit the ads in ChatGPT yet, cause they’re there. Spotify comes out of nowhere with killer good earnings. The coming tidal wave of Chinese AI launches. The coming deluge of social media trials. And does AI usage reduce the amount of work you do, or actually compound it? OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT (Mashable) Spotify Shares Surge After Adding Record Number of New Users (Bloomberg) Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance Offer AI Red Packets to Lure Users (Bloomberg) New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation online (AP) AI Doesn't Reduce Work, It Intensifies It (HBR) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the TechBrew Right Home for Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. So have you hit the ads in ChatGPT yet because they're there?
0:13.1	Spotify comes out of nowhere with killer good earnings, the coming tidal wave of Chinese AI launches, the coming deluge of social media trials, and does AI usage
0:22.5	reduce the amount of work you do or actually compound it? Here's what you miss today in the world
0:26.9	of tech.
0:33.1	There here, the ads have finally come to ChatGPT, quoting Mashable. The ads appear outside of
0:40.0	chat GPT's responses and are clearly labeled as sponsored content. Open AI says ads do not
0:45.3	influence how the chatbot answers questions and that user conversations are not shared with
0:49.4	advertisers. Instead, ads are selected based on broad conversation topics and how users interact with ads
0:55.2	with restrictions in place to prevent sponsored content from appearing alongside sensitive topics such as health, mental health, or politics.
1:02.6	Those who use ChatGPT's free service can opt out of the ads with a caveat.
1:07.0	If you prefer not to see ads, you can upgrade to R Plus or Pro plans or opt out of ads in the
1:12.0	free tier in exchange for fewer daily free messages, according to the company.
1:16.5	Users who do consent to ads will also have the option to opt out of ad personalization,
1:22.2	limiting how sponsored content is selected.
1:24.7	There are also options to stop ChatChPT from utilizing past AI chats to tailor
1:28.9	ads as well as deleting all ads, history, and data the company has compiled on a user. At the time
1:35.0	of publication, Mashable attempted to surface ads during regular use of chat GPT but were unable to
1:39.4	trigger any sponsored content which aligns with OpenAI's description of the rollout as a limited
1:43.5	test rather than a full launch. the rollout as a limited test rather
1:44.2	than a full launch. The rollout follows months of user confusion and frustration after
1:48.9	widely circulated screenshots appeared to show promotional content embedded in chat GPT responses.
1:54.6	OpenAI previously dismissed those incidents as poorly timed suggestions, but the distinction did
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