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This Monday morning, OpenAI is making big moves in the AI landscape, from new ad features to controversial parenting advice, even as a new Chinese competitor emerges. Multiple sources, including ALM Corp and PPC Land, confirm that OpenAI has rolled out significant updates to ChatGPT Ads. The biggest change is the introduction of oCPC bidding, allowing advertisers to set conversion goals, even though they still pay per click. What's also new is increased budget flexibility: daily budgets will now average out over seven days, meaning daily spending can fluctuate. Advertisers can also exclude specific countries, states, and cities, and new measurement tools are integrated for tracking app installs. Meanwhile, Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, has sparked considerable online criticism, as reported by International Business Times Australia, Fortune, and Benzinga. Altman suggested parents use ChatGPT to create personalized morning podcasts for their children, calling it a "cool use case." Critics like Alex Hirsch, creator of "Gravity Falls," responded with "What if you just talked to your children?", a comment that gained millions of views. Altman has previously stated he couldn't imagine raising a newborn without ChatGPT. In other news, Yellow.com reports that a new Chinese AI model, GLM-5.2, now ranks among the world's top three strongest large language models, outperforming all OpenAI and Google models on independent benchmarks. This model runs at a fraction of the cost, priced near $1.40 per million input tokens, compared to roughly $15 for Claude Opus 4.8. The Economic Times notes that OpenAI has also enhanced ChatGPT for browser and desktop use. Users can now highlight text on a webpage, right-click, and select "Ask ChatGPT," which opens the assistant with the highlighted content as context. Finally, Crypto Briefing reveals OpenAI is retiring DALL-E image generation from ChatGPT. The DALL-E GPT interface will be fully retired on August 30th, with users needing to download saved images before then. The new feature, ChatGPT Images, runs on OpenAI's newer gpt-image-1 and gpt-image-1-mini models. These developments mean that businesses using ChatGPT Ads will see changes in how their campaigns run and are billed, potentially affecting their marketing spend. For parents, the debate around AI's role in family life continues, raising questions about screen time versus human connection.