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French Navy Officer Exposed Carrier Location via Strava

A French Navy officer logged a run from the deck of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the fitness app Strava, unintentionally revealing the warship’s precise location as it transits toward the Middle East. Le Monde first reported the incident; TechCrunch covered it noting Strava accounts default to public and publish route data when workouts are uploaded. The French Armed Forces said the officer’s actions violated current guidelines. The story echoes prior cases where public Strava data exposed military movements and the whereabouts of high-profile individuals.

Financial Times Signs OpenAI Licensing Deal

Financial Times has agreed to license its content to OpenAI, enabling the use of FT material to train AI models and allowing ChatGPT to respond with summaries of FT articles, linking back to FT.com. OpenAI notes the partnership will enrich ChatGPT for its around-100-million-user base with real-time, world-class journalism. The deal places FT alongside publishers like Axel Springer, Le Monde, and Associated Press who have licensing arrangements with OpenAI. OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap stressed transparency, attribution, and publisher compensation. The move comes amid broader debate over fair remuneration and a separate lawsuit by The New York Times alleging OpenAI scraped Times content for training data. FT has already embraced AI internally via ChatGPT Enterprise and recently created an AI editor role to educate its newsroom on AI adoption.

ChatGPT Search Now Open to All, Competing with Google

A German-language article reports that OpenAI has made ChatGPT Search accessible to all users without signing in. The feature combines natural-language querying with up-to-date web results and links. OpenAI cites partnerships with publishers such as Axel Springer, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, News Corp, Le Monde, and TIME to supply current content in search results, and mentions user-preference controls via Custom Instructions. However, a Tow Center analysis for the Columbia Journalism Review found that ChatGPT Search can produce inaccurate attributions and may misinterpret publisher content or crawl rules. The piece also notes OpenAI’s branding refresh (OpenAI Sans) and a planned Super Bowl ad, and mentions broader implications for advertising and messaging, including WhatsApp integration of ChatGPT without signup (with account linking coming) and image/voice message support.