AI News Briefing — September 1: ChatGPT ads reach a $1B annualized run rate, the EU designates ChatGPT a search engine, DeepSeek opens a vision model under MIT
Today's three stories all turn on ChatGPT. In a single day the same product took three positions at once: the one selling advertising, the one designated a search engine and brought under regulation, and the one being chased by open weights.