AI News Briefing — September 21: A blogger traces ChatGPT's ad collector, Qwen ships image weights under a research-only license
The question of the day was what AI collects and what it permits. The author of a personal blog traced how ChatGPT's ad collector carries an identifier from advertiser sites back to OpenAI, Alibaba's Qwen published the open weights of an image model under a research-only license, and security experts told The Verge that humans remain the biggest cyber risk to energy systems.