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OpenAI's conversational AI assistant built on its GPT models, used for chat, search, coding, and other tasks across web, desktop, and mobile apps.
Apple's iOS 27 Shortcuts adds three automation triggers and a Use Model action with four model choices, one of them ChatGPT, TechRepublic reports. The model picked in the editor governs where work data goes each time a trigger fires.
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David Rosenthal, 39, sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license when it advised him on medications and dosages. Teams shipping chatbots that answer health questions have a pleaded theory to weigh, and no ruling is reported yet.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT ads appear on about 25.94% of commercial prompts, while around 14% of ads have little or no link to the query, Crypto Briefing reported. Results are uneven enough that we would hold search budgets where they are and cap ChatGPT at a test.
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Iowa, Kansas and six other states have sued OpenAI in courts across the country, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others. Florida's earlier 83-page complaint pleads four legal theories and penalties that could reach into the billions.
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OpenAI updated its ChatGPT Chrome extension so Chat can read open tabs and the Work agent can send messages and fill out forms. The Verge compares Work's tab control to Gemini's auto browse, and Engadget says OpenAI retired its own browser on August 9.
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OpenAI lets advertisers target ChatGPT users by uploaded email, phone number or Android advertising ID, according to 404 Media's tests. Prompts that users may assume are private are a targeting input too.
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Monthly new apps on iOS, Android and Chrome have doubled or quadrupled while downloads and ratings stayed flat, a16z.news reports from a recent paper. More apps have not meant more use, and the data cannot say whether quality or reach is to blame.
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X suspended more than 13,000 accounts it ties to Iranian, Russian and Chinese influence operations before the Nov. 3 midterms. SC Media reported that X did not provide specific evidence for the attributions.
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Apple CEO John Ternus argued in a TIME interview that Siri does not need to win the AI intelligence race, Tom's Guide reported. The new US Siri draws on Google's Gemini technology, so Apple's bet rests on what the phone already holds.
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Attorneys general in eight states sued OpenAI on October 14, alleging it misled parents about ChatGPT's safety. A proposed class action filed a day earlier alleges the company collected children's data without valid parental consent.
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OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT ads to eligible Free and Go users in selected regions, matched in part to the current conversation. A work prompt typed into a personal free account falls inside that matching, though OpenAI says advertisers do not receive chats.
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OpenAI made GPT-Live-1.1 the default voice model for Plus and higher ChatGPT tiers on October 15 and promised API access. It did not quantify any speech-recognition or instruction-following gain, The Neuron reports, so builders will have to measure those themselves.
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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued OpenAI, alleging it called ChatGPT safe while knowing the product had significant risks. Eight other states filed similar suits the same day, Griffin's office said, so OpenAI faces nine at once.
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Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan with planting an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it has no indication that source code, model weights or customer data were taken.
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Semrush's seven-month index found that 36.7 to 45.3 of the UK's top 100 AI-mentioned brands also ranked among the top 100 cited domains. A dev.to summary says the US stayed under half too, but it quotes a US range of about 70 to 78.
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Graduates in the most AI-exposed fields were 5 points less likely to be employed the quarter after graduating, a Census Bureau paper finds. The figures cover only that first quarter, so they speak to this quarter's entry-level market and little beyond it.
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ANY.RUN tied 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI-brand campaigns between April and October 2026. The vendor says repeat cases strain MSSP analyst capacity, though the article does not report analyst hours.
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Praktika's head of talent came back from six months of leave to more than 1,000 applicants for some roles and an AI system she could not find. Business Insider's report of three returners supports planning for the gap, but shows no tested fix.
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird asked a Polk County court to bar OpenAI from advanced model testing and seeks up to $40,000 per violation. With five states already suing in their own courts, OpenAI now faces suits from six.
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OpenAI is the defendant in a proposed class action from a Hawaii mother whose 12- and 16-year-old opened ChatGPT accounts without parental consent. The complaint says sign-up never verifies that consent and that the chat data went into model training.
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