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Rich Stanton

Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to 'authoritarian' Anthropic's annihilation of ads-supported AI doesn't make me trust it more

Sam Altman at the Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference at the Federal Reserve on July 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. .

I'm not sure when this became a thing, but AI firm Anthropic has released the ads it intends to show during the Super Bowl. Which is in two days, and obviously has as big a live audience as you get, which is why you're paying up to $10 million per 30 seconds of airtime.

Anthropic's adverts criticise ads being introduced to ChatGPT, and describe it as a "betrayal" of users. I regret to inform you all that the irony metre has officially smashed. It has gone off the scale.

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