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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt

Florida verklagt ChatGPT-Entwickler OpenAI
Der US-Bundesstaat Florida betritt juristisches Neuland mit einer Klage gegen die KI-Firma OpenAI. Er wirft ihr vor, ChatGPT-Nutzern Sicherheit zu versprechen.
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Florida verklagt ChatGPT-Entwickler OpenAI
Der US-Bundesstaat Florida betritt juristisches Neuland mit einer Klage gegen die KI-Firma OpenAI. Er wirft ihr vor, ChatGPT-Nutzern Sicherheit zu versprechen.

NFL Catchup: Latest On Browns QB Battle; Shade In Dallas? Broncos Interested In QB? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-catchup-latest-browns-qb-battle-shade-dallas-broncos-interested-qb

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/

Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes of getting their posts scraped and used by AI chatbots (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipu…

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

For some reason, a report from Anthropic's Red Team got suprisingly little press coverage yesterday but is v. interesting.
Anthropic studied nearly 14K malicious acts undertaken by 832 accounts that it subsequently banned. 1/2
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/attack-navigator/

Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping remains the biggest sector by ad spend (Stephen Council/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-more-ads-bigger-brand…

New data: ChatGPT fills with more ads, bigger brands like Home Depot
New data shows how OpenAI is boosting ad presence on ChatGPT, drawing major brands such as Home Depot and Intuit.

Last Week according to #LastFM

Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220 are "fallen unicorns" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/ai-startup-valuations-pre-chatgpt.html…

'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT
The AI boom that has funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT's arrival in 2022 stranded.

An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with "what was state of the art just a few months ago", refusing to use distillation, more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/02/2026

Microsoft’s AI chief on the greatest game of catchup ever played
Mustafa Suleyman admits the company is behind, but says the AI race has barely begun.