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You’ll Start Seeing Ads in ChatGPT Soon

How to master any subject using Google's Learn Your Way

January 16, 2026

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Welcome to another edition of Log AI.

In today’s update, we’re looking at two big changes in ChatGPT: targeted ads are coming soon (starting with shopping links), and OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Translate, a new tool that helps you translate languages fast.

Let’s get into the details.

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  Here's what's new today in the Log AI

  • Ads are soon coming to ChatGPT

  • OpenAI launhes ChatGPT Translate

  • AI Tutorial: How to master any subject using Google's Learn Your Way

  • AI Tools to check out

  • The Latest in AI

  • ChatGPT Prompt of the day

AI NEWS

OPENAI

Ads are soon coming to ChatGPT with targeted shopping links

OpenAI has confirmed that ads are coming to ChatGPT, starting with shopping-style sponsored links. This will first roll out as a US test in the next few weeks.

Key Points:

  • Sponsored product or service links may show up at the bottom of certain answers, only when your chat is related to shopping.

  • OpenAI says these links will be clearly marked as “sponsored” and kept separate from the main answer.

  • The test will apply to logged-in adults in the US, mainly for Free users and ChatGPT Go ($8/month).

  • Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users will not see ads.

  • OpenAI says it won’t sell your chats or personal data to advertisers, and ads won’t show in sensitive topics like health, mental health, and politics. Users under 18 won’t see ads.

Better prompts. Better AI output.

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AI AND INNOVATION

OpenAI launhes ChatGPT Translate

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Translate, a new translation tool inside ChatGPT that works like Google Translate. It provides fast translations on a simple two-box page and supports 50+ languages.

Details:

  • It has its own Translate page, made for quick copy-and-paste translations.

  • It supports 50+ languages, like a real translation app.

  • You can change the translation style to sound more formal, more fluent, more academic, or more kid-friendly.

  • Right now, it focuses mainly on text translation.

  • There is no separate Translate app yet. It is built into ChatGPT on the web.

AI TUTORIAL

How to master any subject using Google's Learn Your Way

You don’t need to buy a course or pay for a tutor to master a subject. Google’s Learn Your Way can teach you for free. Here is how:

  1. Go to Google’s Learn Your Way.

  2. Click on try it now to access their library

  3. Or, upload or paste what you want to learn (PDF, notes, textbook page).

  4. Pick your level (beginner, middle school, high school, college).

  5. Choose a learning mode from Mind map, Slides lesson, Audio lesson, Quiz, or immersive text

  6. If you miss a question, review that section and retry.

If you are unable to access it, apply via their waitlist.

AI TOOLS TO CHECK OUT

THE LATEST IN AI

OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world.

Higgsfield offers a tool that allows consumers, creators, and social media teams to create and edit AI-generated videos.

CHATGPT PROMPT OF THE DAY

"Create a clean, scroll-stopping visual using the attached product for social media. The composition should feel organic and understated, not sales-driven. Use strong visual hierarchy, natural lighting, and modern framing. Do not add text, badges, or exaggerated effects.The image should communicate quality and clarity at a glance."

Someone just spent $236,000,000 on a painting. Here’s why it matters for your wallet.

The WSJ just reported the highest price ever paid for modern art at auction.

While equities, gold, bitcoin hover near highs, the art market is showing signs of early recovery after one of the longest downturns since the 1990s.

Here’s where it gets interesting→

Each investing environment is unique, but after the dot com crash, contemporary and post-war art grew ~24% a year for a decade, and after 2008, it grew ~11% annually for 12 years.*

Overall, the segment has outpaced the S&P by 15 percent with near-zero correlation from 1995 to 2025.

Now, Masterworks lets you invest in shares of artworks featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso. Since 2019, investors have deployed $1.25 billion across 500+ artworks.

Masterworks has sold 25 works with net annualized returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8%.

Shares can sell quickly, but my subscribers skip the waitlist:

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THAT’S A WRAP!

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Awa K. Penn