Printed because it was cut

OpenAI says ChatGPT advertising has reached a $1 billion annualized run rate

The company presents advertising as the mechanism that subsidizes free and lower-cost access. The wire could not retrieve the full announcement during its request-limited sweep, so this edition carries the publisher’s figure as a claim, not a finding.

The full announcement could not be retrieved before printing. The figure is OpenAI’s own.

Publisher's claim, unverified

Published in the edition of Monday, 31 August 2026 · Beat: The Board