139: ChatGPT Ads Roll Out, UK Wastes £4M on AI Site, YouTube Growth Hits Critical Mass

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First aired: 10 February 2026

Summary: OpenAI's rolling out ads in ChatGPT and they're taking quite the interesting PR approach—essentially telling everyone that actually, you're going to love these ads. It's a bold strategy, I'll give them that. They're starting with free and Plus users in the US, promising the ads won't influence responses and will be clearly labeled. The spin is that this lets them expand free access to AI for everyone, which is fair enough given they need revenue. But you can tell from the comments that nobody's particularly thrilled about it. Still, I think it's reasonable—they've got to pay the bills somehow.

On a completely different note, I got properly annoyed with the UK government's AI training website. They've spent £4 million of taxpayer money on this thing through PwC, and it's genuinely useless. The "pathways" feature just shows you a filtered list of courses—it doesn't actually create a pathway at all. What's worse, they're missing obvious resources like NHS and civil service training materials that already exist. So I've gone ahead and started building a proper version myself that actually helps people navigate AI training, and I'll release it for free once it's done. Might replicate it for other countries too, because clearly someone needs to do this properly.

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