57 verified stories covering ChatGPT, product updates and industry developments.
Attorneys general from eight states filed suits against OpenAI on Oct. 14, seeking changes to how ChatGPT works, in what Reuters calls the largest coordinated state action against an AI company.
A UC Berkeley study finds that after about 10 minutes of ChatGPT-assisted problem solving, participants scored lower and skipped more questions once the tool was taken away.
Common Sense Media gave OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens its lowest rating, citing missed crisis referrals, silent parental alerts and workarounds in study mode.
OpenAI made GPT-6 the default model for all ChatGPT tiers and launched Intelligent UI, so replies can include buttons, forms and charts, not just text.
a16z's 7th Consumer AI report adds a spending ranking: only 4.5% of Americans pay for AI chatbots, but the top 1% spend $903 a month on average.
OpenAI will test ads inside ChatGPT's image-generation screen with US advertisers this month, the first ad placement to move beyond text replies.
OpenAI opened ChatGPT's Finances feature to US Free and Go users on Oct 2, completing a four-tier rollout that started as a Pro-only preview in May.
Epoch AI's new ChatGPT usage explorer, built from 5,000 real chat histories via YouGov, shows usage climbing fast and heavily concentrated among top users.
Researchers say a campaign called Dark Sourcery tricks AI chatbots and Google's AI Overview into serving scam support numbers for at least 374 brands.
OpenAI's September 23 update lets ChatGPT voice call plugins like Gmail and Slack, and choose among three new GPT-6 models, Astra, Sol and Luna.
An independent probe finds a year-long OpenAI cookie, __obi, that lets merchant sites tie off-site browsing back to your ChatGPT account.
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Word add-in launched September 17 for every plan, including free; it turns on by default for eligible workspaces starting October 1.
OpenAI paused new sign-ups for the $200 ChatGPT Pro plan as GPT-6 Astra demand outstrips compute, while Go, Plus, Business and the API stay open.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 ships with two API models, Sunburst for editing precision and Flare for speed, priced by token instead of per image.
ChatGPT gutted Nairobi's decade-old essay-writing trade for foreign students, and Kenya's other outsourced digital jobs are shrinking too.
EU Commission designates ChatGPT a very large search engine under the DSA, citing 159 million monthly EU users; Reddit and Roblox also join the toughest tier.
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT's macOS app read, draft, send, and delete iMessages, with a send-confirmation toggle users can turn off per conversation.
ChatGPT for Teens routes 13-to-17-year-olds into a separate experience with study prompts and safety defaults on, but its success hinges on age detection and parents actually using the controls.
OpenAI is rolling Health in ChatGPT out to signed-in US adults, linking medical records, Apple Health data and health chats inside the main ChatGPT experience.
Codex folds into the new ChatGPT desktop is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
ChatGPT Voice moves to GPT-Live is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
WIRED reported that Meta contractors posed as underage users to test ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI with crisis prompts about self-harm, eating disorders and drugs.
Getty licenses its image library to ChatGPT
After banning generative AI in 2023, Samsung is giving Korean employees and global DX teams access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex with training and permission controls.
Sensor Tower estimates ChatGPT still leads with 1.1 billion monthly active users, but Gemini, Claude and other assistants have pushed its market share to 46.4%.
A coalition led by New York is probing OpenAI's advertising, retention design, data practices, youth protections and ChatGPT sycophancy as the company heads toward IPO.
OpenAI bans two China-linked influence clusters.
OpenAI says it has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, giving the company optionality for public markets while it continues to balance massive revenue growth with heavy compute costs.
OpenAI’s Dreaming feature synthesizes past conversations in the background, updates memory summaries over time and exposes sources so users can edit or delete them.
The new security setting does not solve prompt injection, but disables browsing, agents, connectors and other outbound channels that attackers need to exfiltrate data.
A reported relaunch would pull ChatGPT, Codex and the Atlas browser closer together as OpenAI shifts the product from answers toward agents and enterprise work.
Similarweb data compiled by Momentic shows ChatGPT still leads AI chatbot web visits, but Gemini has grown from 5.6% to 27.4% in a year.
OpenAI is putting job listings and resume tools inside ChatGPT, starting with US job search and a global English resume editor.
Sensor Tower data puts ChatGPT at a record one billion monthly active users, but Claude’s 640% growth is the sharper IPO-season signal.
A study reveals that AI-generated legal filings have surged to 18% of all pro se cases, overwhelming federal courts.
OpenAI consolidates its product lines into a single agent platform led by Greg Brockman, ending side projects ahead of a potential IPO.
OpenAI is letting US Pro users link bank, brokerage and card accounts so ChatGPT can answer personal finance questions from live data.
Reports say OpenAI is weighing a breach notice after the ChatGPT integration inside iOS failed to drive the subscription upside it expected.
Bloomberg and others report that OpenAI hired outside counsel after the iPhone ChatGPT partnership produced far less subscription revenue than expected.
OpenAI added Codex controls to ChatGPT on iPhone, iPad and Android, letting users monitor and approve coding tasks away from the desktop.
ChatGPT can now alert a user-nominated trusted contact after automated risk detection and human review identify a possible self-harm crisis.
OpenAI has opened ChatGPT Ads Manager to all U.S. businesses, lowering entry costs and adding click-based bidding as it tests whether conversational intent can become a large ad business.
OpenAI has made ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets generally available, pairing spreadsheet assistance with financial data integrations from major market-data providers.
OpenAI is taking ChatGPT ads into five more markets as it opens self-serve buying in the U.S. and tries to turn early revenue into a $2.5 billion annual business.
Anthropic is pushing Claude harder into consumer AI with faster mobile replies, App Store momentum and a pitch as an ad-free ChatGPT alternative.
OpenAI has quietly made GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model, pointing to lower hallucination rates, shorter answers and broader memory-source visibility.
Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences will stop centrally funding ChatGPT Edu after undergraduate use fell short, while offering Claude access by course request.
Internal projections suggest OpenAI expects cheaper ChatGPT Go subscriptions and ads to drive scale while Plus users decline sharply.
A New York federal judge ruled that conversations with AI chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT are not protected by attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine, while a Michigan court reached the opposite conclusion on the same day. Over a dozen top U.S. law firms have since warned clients that AI chats could be subpoenaed as evidence.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized to the Tumbler Ridge community for failing to report a banned ChatGPT account to law enforcement. The account belonged to the perpetrator of a February 2026 school shooting that left eight dead.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free version for verified U.S. doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists, built on GPT-5.4 with clinical search, workflow skills, and privacy protections.
OpenAI has launched workspace agents, a new feature that replaces custom GPTs and turns ChatGPT from a chatbot into an autonomous team automation platform powered by the Codex model.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 arrives as DALL-E 3 bows out. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
A major global outage on April 20 took ChatGPT offline for roughly three hours, affecting Codex, the API, and Projects. OpenAI provided minimal information and no root cause analysis, raising concerns about AI infrastructure reliability for businesses.
OpenAI has acquired Hiro Finance, a personal AI finance startup founded by Digit creator Ethan Bloch, to bolster ChatGPT's financial capabilities and advance its super-app strategy.
OpenAI published a Child Safety Blueprint on April 8, proposing a framework for the AI industry to address child sexual exploitation content, backed by data showing over 8,000 AI-generated CSAM cases in the first half of 2025.
OpenAI removed GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026, as only 0.1% of daily active users still manually selected it. The decision sparked backlash from a small but vocal group of users who had formed an emotional attachment to the model's distinctive conversational style.