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OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta (Alix Coutures/The Information)

As OpenAI has jockeyed with Anthropic to win over developers with new models and tools this year, its advertising business at times has seemed like an afterthought.

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Server Prices Surge Up to Fourfold as AI Demand Squeezes Memory Supply

The price of a single server has surged as much as fourfold in just one year, putting corporate information technology (IT) infrastructure investment under severe pressure.

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