OpenAI’s 2026 Pivot: Why Ads in ChatGPT and Jony Ive’s “Gumdrop” AI Pen Signal a New Google Era

For most of the last two years, OpenAI presented itself as the company that would replace Google’s old economic model of the internet. No ads. No ranking incentives. Just intelligence. That promise is now quietly collapsing. Behind headlines about safety hiring and next-generation models, OpenAI is executing a forced pivot for 2026 built around two … Read more