OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users
OpenAI's consumer chatbot ChatGPT to hit a new milestone of 700M weekly users.
Inside OpenAIâs quest to make AI do anything for you
OpenAI developed the first AI reasoning model less than a year ago, but the technology has shifted Silicon Valley's focus to agents.
OpenAI reportedly raises $8.3B at $300B valuation
The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, and is part of OpenAI's strategy to raise $40 billion.
Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines
Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.
Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.
ChatGPT users send 2.5 billion prompts a day
ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day.
Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI
Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption.
OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.
ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true
Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, finally solved a months-long mystery: weird images of ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.
ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called ‘study together’
Some ChatGPT subscribers are reporting a new feature appearing in their drop-down list of available tools called “Study Together.” The mode is apparently the chatbot’s way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer, like OpenAI’s answer to Google’s […]
ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAIâs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]
How AI chatbots keep people coming back
Chatbots are increasingly looking to keep people chatting, using familiar tactics that we’ve already seen lead to negative consequences. Sycophancy can make AI chatbots respond in a way that’s overly agreeable or flattering. And while having a digital hype person might not seem like a dangerous thing, it is actually a tactic used by tech […]
Spiraling with ChatGPT
ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times.