Ads Taking Shape in ChatGPT

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

OpenAI quietly preps ChatGPT for advertising; Poetiq breaks ground on ARC AGI 2 with GPT‑5.2; Italy orders Meta to suspend WhatsApp AI restrictions over dominance concerns.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Upscale Grainy Videos with Krea

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Turn AI into Personal Consultant

• AI Video Tutorial

• Course of the Day: Prompt Engineering Interactive Course

Hottest AI News

OpenAI

OpenAI Quietly Prepares ChatGPT for Advertising

OpenAI’s long-rumored push toward ads in ChatGPT is taking shape. Internal talks, early mockups, and hiring plans suggest the company is designing how ads might work—while trying not to erode the trust that made ChatGPT popular.

Details:

• OpenAI teams have built early mockups showing how ads could appear in ChatGPT, including sponsored product suggestions tied to relevant queries and ads placed in side panels rather than interrupting answers. Clear disclosure is emphasized so users can understand ad placements

• The ad effort is tied to ChatGPT’s expanding commerce features. OpenAI has added shopping and transactional tools through partners like Shopify, Stripe, Zillow, and DoorDash, enabling ads that could lead directly to purchases

• While CEO Sam Altman called ads a “last resort,” OpenAI is hiring ad-focused talents. Rising compute costs and a large F-R-E-E user base have brought ads into focus, with industry chatter pointing to possible 2026 rollout

ChatGPT ads aren’t live yet, and OpenAI continues to publicly downplay them. But behind the scenes, the structure, talent, and product foundations are already forming.

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Poetiq

Poetiq Breaks Ground on ARC AGI 2 Using GPT‑5.2

Poetiq has set a milestone in AI reasoning by cracking the ARC‑AGI‑2 benchmark, demonstrating how smart orchestration of existing models can outperform sheer scale while keeping costs low.

Details:

• Poetiq first reached 54% accuracy on the semi‑private ARC‑AGI‑2 test set, becoming the first system to pass 50%. It used a meta‑system that guides large models through iterative reasoning and self‑audit loops until solutions converge

• The system is cost-efficient, at about $30 per problem versus $77 for previous top solutions. Its meta-system lets different LLMs be swapped or updated without retraining from scratch

• In the latest update, Poetiq ran GPT‑5.2 X‑High on the public evaluation set, hitting 75% accuracy for under $8 per problem. This shows major performance gains while keeping efficiency, emphasizing iterative reasoning and smart orchestration

Poetiq’s achievements show that the next wave of AI reasoning breakthroughs may come as much from clever system design and iterative refinement as from ever-larger models.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

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AI Tutorial

How to Upscale Grainy Videos with Krea AI in Minutes

Krea AI’s video upscaler is designed to revitalize grainy or low-resolution videos, producing sharp, clear visuals in minutes. Here’s how to make the most of it:

1. Visit Krea AI

   Go to Krea and either create an account or log into your existing one.

2. Use Enhancer Tool

   From the dashboard, locate and select the Enhancer feature—this is where the video upscaling options are available.

3. Choose AI Model

   At the lower left corner, select the AI model you want to use for upscaling. Krea has multiple options—such as Krea Enhance, Upscale V1, and Topaz—each with unique strengths in quality, duration, and processing speed.

4. Upload Video Clip

   Pick a video you’d like to improve. The tool works best with clips that are concise enough for rapid processing.

5. Adjust Enhancement Settings

   Fine-tune your output by modifying parameters such as:

   • Upscaling ratio (e.g., 2x, 4x)

   • Frame rate (to make motion smoother)

   • Intensity (for sharper detail)

   You can also include an optional text prompt to influence the style or tone of the output.

6. Process Video

   Select the Enhance button to start rendering. Processing time will depend on your chosen settings and video length.

7. Compare and Review

   Once complete, view the side-by-side comparison of the original and enhanced versions to ensure you’re happy with the result.

8. Download Improved Footage

   If satisfied, save the enhanced video to your device for use in projects, presentations, or social media.

Note: Start with the highest-quality source video you have—even if it’s still low-res. AI upscalers work best when there’s enough base detail for the model to enhance.

Top AI & Tech News

• Italy's competition authority ordered Meta to suspend its WhatsApp policy banning third‑party AI chatbots, citing potential abuse of dominance

• Waymo is testing integration of Google’s Gemini AI as an in-car assistant for its robotaxis, according to code found by researcher Jane Manchun Wong

• Trump drew about 25,000 applicants for Tech Force, who are competing for 1,000 two‑year federal tech and AI engineering positions

• Rafael Behr says AI is surrounded by hype and massive financial wagers reshaping economies and geopolitics whether or not the grandest claims come true

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

[BRAND NAME] luxury leather duffle bag, high-end editorial studio photograph. The duffle bag, designed with a unique, unconventional color palette and unexpected patterns or graphics relevant to [BRAND NAME], is suspended against a seamless, soft pastel studio background with gentle, diffused lighting. The premium pebbled leather texture is prominent, with [BRAND NAME] logos and signature motifs integrated into the design. Polished metal hardware and a small leather luggage tag are visible. The scene is lit with professional softbox lighting, creating soft shadows and highlights. Shot with a shallow depth of field, the bag is in sharp focus. At the bottom, small, minimalist typography reads "[BRAND NAME] LEATHER DUFFLE".

Model: Nano Banana Pro

Prompt of the Day

Turn AI into Your Personal Consultant with This Prompt

Lyra is a master prompt optimizer that converts vague user inputs into precise, ready-to-use prompts. Using a four-step method — Deconstruct, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver — Lyra extracts intent, fixes ambiguity, applies techniques like few‑shot examples and chain‑of‑thought, and returns an optimized prompt with brief notes on changes and usage.

It supports DETAIL and BASIC modes and adapts to different target models for quick fixes or deeper optimization.

Top AI Video Tutorial

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AI Course of the Day

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Course

This course provides a clear, step‑by‑step guide to engineering optimal prompts in Claude. By completing it, you will master the core structure of an effective prompt, learn to identify common failure modes, and apply the 80/20 techniques to fix them.