#chatgpt

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup focused on AI-powered presentation generation, integrating the team into its ChatGPT product division.

OpenAI rolls out unlimited text chats to free users and introduces GPT-5.6 Luna and Sol models with adjustable reasoning sliders, while reducing factual errors by 62–68% versus GPT-5.5-Instant.

OpenAI introduces three role-specific plugins for ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers, enabling students and educators to leverage agentic AI capabilities with institutional guardrails.

OpenAI's ChatGPT accounts for roughly 90% of all AI tool spending across House offices and committees, according to House disbursement records analyzed by CNBC.

Content creator with 3.2M subscribers admits ChatGPT reliance has compromised his creative process and audience trust.

OpenAI CEO pitches AI-generated family podcasts while facing lawsuits from parents over ChatGPT's role in mental health crises.

Analysis of 800,000+ ChatGPT messages reveals 43.5% of occupation-specific AI use involves tasks outside users' own jobs, with customer service and design roles leading the crossover.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Voice feature, powered by GPT-Live models, now works on desktop apps to control agents and automate complex workflows.

Gemini surpasses 950M monthly active users in Q2 2026, tripling year-over-year and closing the gap with ChatGPT as AI assistant competition intensifies.

ChatGPT Health rolls out nationwide after 30-day beta, enabling health data integration across all chat queries despite liability concerns.

ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now connect Apple Health and medical records to receive personalized health insights, with data excluded from model training.

The acclaimed author criticized ChatGPT's impact on education during a talk at OpenAI's offices, arguing the tool has devastated teachers and robbed students of their writing voice.

OpenAI argues teens need AI access paired with age-appropriate protections, rolling out Study Mode and parental controls to balance learning benefits with safety.

OpenAI's new Signals data reveals users double their task variety within six months and fastest growth in Africa and Asia.

A California jury rejected ChatGPT conversation logs as evidence of intent in a wildfire arson case, with jurors questioning whether AI chatbot usage reveals criminal character.

Anthropic's Claude is growing 75% year-to-date among U.S. paid subscribers, gaining ground on OpenAI's ChatGPT in consumer spending despite remaining far behind in overall user count.

Generative AI virtual staging tools are allowing real estate brokers to present dramatically altered listings, leaving renters to discover discrepancies between online photos and actual apartments.

Wired AI explores 28 techniques to extract more useful and creative outputs from conversational AI, from role-playing to multimodal inputs.

Meredith Whittaker argues that treating AI systems as friends or conscious beings obscures their real privacy and surveillance risks.

GPT-5.5 Instant matches OpenAI's most advanced Thinking models on health evaluations, with physician-validated improvements in safety, accuracy, and context awareness.

Pew Research finds 63% of U.S. adults think AI development outpaces safeguards, even as chatbot usage doubles since 2024.

OpenAI's chatbot drops to 46.4% market dominance by May 2026, while Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini capture growing user bases.

OpenAI's new head of core products is consolidating ChatGPT and Codex into a personalized agent platform, reshaping the company's consumer ambitions ahead of an IPO.

OpenAI is revamping ChatGPT into a unified platform integrating AI agents and developer tools, aiming to compete with Anthropic and drive monetization before IPO.

Florida's top law enforcement official files novel litigation against OpenAI and Sam Altman, claiming ChatGPT facilitated mass shootings and suicides.

Japan's largest financial group deploys OpenAI's enterprise chatbot across Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, signaling a shift toward AI-native banking operations.

The nine-state hospital system is using OpenAI's healthcare-specific model to automate documentation tasks, freeing clinicians to spend more time with patients.

OpenAI consolidates ChatGPT, Codex, and API into unified product team under cofounder Greg Brockman, signaling shift toward agentic AI ahead of potential IPO.

OpenAI is piloting a financial-data connector that allows ChatGPT Pro subscribers to link bank accounts for spending analysis and budgeting advice.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Futures, awarding $10,000 grants to students from 20+ universities who used AI to build real-world projects during their undergraduate years.

OpenAI's new default ChatGPT model reportedly achieves a 52.5% reduction in hallucinated claims on high-stakes queries, grounded in real user-flagged failure data.

OpenAI launches a beta self-serve Ads Manager and adds cost-per-click bidding, opening its ChatGPT ad pilot to businesses of all sizes.

Polling shows Gen Z is both a top adopter and a growing critic of AI tools, caught between economic pressure and deep ethical objection.