A short AI news roundup for Workollab readers. These are the updates worth tracking this week.
News
- Building advertising for the way people use AI (OpenAI News)
OpenAI introduces a new visual ad format in ChatGPT and expands measurement tools, attribution partnerships, and brand suitability for advertisers. - Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI (The Verge AI)
Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those in the AI industry. Google's Demis Hass - Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade (MarkTechPost)
One transformer ran candidate generation and ranking in Yandex Music's A/B test without hand-engineered features, lifting likes 11.42%. - People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough? (MIT Technology Review AI)
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my h - The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T (MarkTechPost)
Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each cl
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