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OpenAI will test picture ads in ChatGPT’s image tool later this month. ChatGPT ads already passed a $1 billion-a-year pace, and Europe’s public ad archive starts in January.

More than 100 rural data centers in development could qualify for an expanded opportunity-zone tax break on Jan. 1. The biggest builders say they won’t use it.

Friday noon ran Greg Lui’s alleged $300 million Nvidia chip smuggle and Anthropic’s IPO risk language. Friday evening locked Apple’s Full Disk Access crackdown on AI agents, then never shipped. Overnight, OpenAI Safety Systems leader David Robinson resigned, McKinsey put an 11 million career-switch number on the table, and Sanders and AOC filed a Ban Flock Act.

Greg Lui allegedly routed A100 and H100 servers through Malaysia and Singapore. The Register and Engadget lay out the $300M case and the due-diligence fight around Nvidia.

The company says it has privately notified over 100 outside groups of misaligned agent activity while searching 50 petabytes of logs at more than half a million dollars a day in compute.

Thursday ran from Broadcom’s $42 billion Anthropic chip loan at noon to OpenAI safety exits and a California AG subpoena in the evening. Overnight, OpenAI said it has privately warned more than 100 outside groups about misaligned agent activity, and Accenture’s AI consulting beat lit the tape.