ChatGPT — Latest News and Analysis

OpenAI is rolling out phone messaging support for Dot, its always on task agent, so ChatGPT Pro users can send requests and get progress updates in their phone’s messaging app.

OpenAI has lowered its valuation target by $150 billion during talks for up to $30 billion in private funding.

OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra model improves coding and computer work at lower prices for developers integrating it into software.

ChatGPT produces cartoons for requests about deepfake election interference scenes, making the invented images visibly different from photographs.

OpenAI says it cut live internet access for its most advanced AI models during training, replacing it with a virtual web environment where they can still practice browsing.

Password manager1Password is rolling out user-approved website logins for more AI agents. It can apply previously saved user passwords without giving them to agents directly.

OpenAI is reportedly seeking about $30 billion in investment commitments before rival Anthropic’s expected November stock-market debut, as both court some of the same backers.

Anthropic and OpenAI are reportedly negotiating what outside AI safety reviewers can publish. The terms could shape what the public learns about AI risks.

ChatGPT for Teens replied without the expected parent alerts in simulated teen crisis tests. OpenAI disputes whether the parental controls had been fully activated.

Word choices will carry hidden OpenAI watermarks in ChatGPT text responses for EU users.

OpenAI plans showing visual ads as ChatGPT users create AI images with a US test starting this October.

OpenAI's new $500 monthly ChatGPT Pro tier offers the most included usage among Pro plans and exclusive Astra Ultrafast speed access. First-time $200 subscribers allowance gets cut by half.

OpenAI has released its GPT-6.1 Sol AI model. In Artificial Analysis's independent ten-test index, it scored 52 versus GPT-6 Sol's 48 with substantially lower measured cost per task.

OpenAI is gradually rolling out Dots to eligible paid ChatGPT users. Each assistant can continue an assignment across connected apps after a conversation ends.

OpenAI Codex now lets developers publish one prepared GitHub project setup for separate cloud coding tasks. Each task retains its uncommitted work across web and mobile sessions.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 as OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22, bringing lower API prices to three new models.

Meta's Muse topped the U.S. iPhone free-app chart. The assistant is designed for account-connected errands, with purchase approval required and stronger data protection still planned.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 model preserves more original details when users revise an image’s setting, style or composition.

The Seattle Times and Newsday allege OpenAI and Microsoft copied their journalism for AI services and seek compensation.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra with stronger agentic capabilities, while access delays and disputed benchmark comparisons fuel user debate.

The Pentagon has added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to its existing GenAI.mil portal, expanding task choices for authorized personnel within its IL5 boundary.

OpenAI's read-only Epic integration lets approved healthcare workspaces summarize authorized patient records while Epic permissions and clinicians stay in control.

EU designation puts ChatGPT’s search-enabled service under Digital Service Act risk reviews, audits and reporting.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads have reached a $1 billion annualized revenue pace as its Ads Manager expands globally,

OpenAI has been losing key executives over the recent months, placing product strategy under Greg Brockman while leaving several leadership handoffs unresolved.

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API input prices 20% and output prices 33.3% through November 21, with eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex credit pricing rolling out.

OpenAI’s Apple Messages plug-in lets ChatGPT Work and Codex search local conversations and send prepared replies through the app on Apple Silicon Macs.

A team of eight researchers reports that encrypted reasoning blocks returned by major AI model APIs can sometimes be recovered.

Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $250 billion guarantee for OpenAI's proposed Ohio campus lease; terms remain unsettled and could shift credit risk to Nvidia.

OpenAI has announced parent alerts that will follow any teen ChatGPT account violence-policy deactivations, sharing the policy category with parents but no private chats.