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Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad Backfires, $30B Round Closes at $380B, & Half of xAI's Founders Quit

Anthropic poisoned the AI well for 93% of viewers who don't know Claude, Nvidia and Microsoft fund both sides of the AI race, and Musk cleans house before the IPO

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Feb 13, 2026
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ChatGPT Gets Ads, Anthropic’s Super Bowl Punch May Have Backfired

OpenAI began testing advertisements in ChatGPT on February 9. Ads appear at the bottom of responses for Free and Go tier users when contextually relevant. Paid subscribers remain ad-free.

OpenAI has hundreds of millions of free users. Monetizing them through ads, the way Google monetized se…

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