The second season of Paramount+’s Landman is coming to an end, but will it be back for a third? Read on to find out everything we know.

The show comes from the mind of Taylor Sheridan, the writer of Yellowstone, Sicario and Hell Or High Water, alongside Christian Wallace. It is set within the world of the oil rigs of West Texas, where “roughnecks and wildcat billionaires are fuelling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics”.

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside of ChatGPT ”in the coming weeks.” In a blog post published Friday, the company said adult users in the US of its free and Go tiers (more on the latter in a moment) would start seeing sponsored products and services appear below their conversations with its chatbot. ”Ads will be clearly labeled and separated from the organic answer,” OpenAI said, adding any sponsored spots would not influence the answers ChatGPT generates. ”Answers are optimized based on what’s most helpful to you.”

Andrea Vallone, a senior safety researcher at OpenAI, has moved to Anthropic. She’ll be working on the alignment team, which focuses on AI model risks. Vallone spent three years at OpenAI, where she founded the ”Model Policy” research team and contributed to major projects including GPT-4, GPT-5, and the company’s reasoning models.

TikTok will begin to roll out new age-verification technology across the EU in the coming weeks, as calls grow for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s in countries including the UK.

ByteDance-owned TikTok, and other major platforms popular with young people such as YouTube, are coming under increasing pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children.

The system, which has been quietly piloted in the EU over the past year, analyses profile information, posted videos and behavioural signals to predict whether an account may be belong to a user under the age of 13.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia since the country banned use of the platforms by those under 16, officials said.

“We stared down everybody who said it couldn’t be done, some of the most powerful and rich companies in the world and their supporters,” communications minister Anika Wells told reporters on Friday. “Now Australian parents can be confident that their kids can have their childhoods back.”

Dutch police have arrested a 33-year-old man at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, allegedly the mastermind behind AVCheck. This arrest marks the latest victory for Operation Endgame, a global mission that has dismantled major malware networks like DanaBot and Rhadamanthys.

The search for the person behind a dangerous testing ground for hackers has officially ended in the Netherlands. According to official reports, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, the country’s military police, arrested a 33-year-old man believed to be the head of a massive criminal service, AVCheck.