EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-08-31 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion annualized revenue run rate

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate and is expanding globally. The company positions advertising as a way to fund broader access to free and lower-cost AI services.

GPUs and Silicon

Cloud and Infra

Pakistan Tech

Security

Anthropic warns Claude users after infostealer malware infections

Anthropic is responding to infostealer infections that may have exposed Claude account credentials. The company is logging affected customers out and removing stored payment data to reduce the risk of unauthorized usage.

PaperCut issues second emergency patch for exploited flaws

PaperCut has released another emergency update for vulnerabilities now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The flaws are being exploited, making prompt patching important for organizations running affected print-management systems.

Dev Tools

ChatGPT faces tougher regulation under the EU Digital Services Act

The EU has classified ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act. OpenAI will face stronger obligations around risks to minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content.

Microsoft expands Foundry Model Router to 28 regions

Microsoft has expanded Foundry Model Router from two regions to 28 for global standard deployments and 21 for data-zone deployments. It also refreshed the model pool with Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 while removing four deprecated models.